X-Message-Number: 24578
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:06:20 -0400
From: Randolfe Wicker <>
Subject: Cloning the dead

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News stories about the announcement that Dr. Panos Zavos has created two embryos
from the cells of dead people seem to focus on the fact that the cell donor was
dead.


Messing with "the dead" seems to touch a taboo.  Of course, cloning a living 
person would provoke other criticisms along the lines of "egotist" etc.


The nice thing about this story is that public sympathy always goes out to the 
parents who have lost a child.  That presents those who object to cloning with 
more of a moral quandary.



http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10613578^401,00.html


Randolfe H. Wicker
Founder, Clone Rights United Front www.clonerights.com 
Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net 
Correspondent, Stem Cells Club, www.stemcellsclub.com
Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org 
201-656-3280 (Mornings)


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