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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 23:45:46 -0400
From: Randolfe Wicker <>
Subject: How to save cells for cloning?

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The "living Father of the Gay Liberation Movement", Frank Kameny, has told me he
is willing to have some of his cells saved for future cloning.


Franklin Kameny challenged the National Association for the Advancement of 
Science meeting focusing on "cloning" in 1997 by equating their denial of the 
possibility of reproductive human cloning as being equivalent to King Chanute's 
order to the sea "not to rise".


On May 20,2005, Korean scientists reported that they had mastered the cloning of
human embryos.  This meant that therapeutic cloning would possibly be able to 
cure many terrible human diseases.  It also meant that anyone willing to 
"violate guidelines" for therapeutic cloning could give the gift of life to the 
first child conceived through cloning.


So, human reproductive cloning is now a possibility.  It is not just a 
possibility, it is inevitable.


Why are people so afraid?  Is the idea of a "second incarnation" of themselves- 
a later-born twin- a threat to their own personhood?  Or does it really raise 
more basic questions.  Does surviving death through a later-born twin defy death
its traditional totality?  Does cloning offer an alternative to immortality 
through traditional religion?


As the world's first reproductive cloning activist, I say that cloning proves 
that continued life is possible after death.  Human cloning

offers a real-time real-life alternative to the mythology of religion.  We need 
not die completely.  First, the formula that is us, our genotype, can life on.  
Ultimately, our genotype and the experiences/memories that are us will also be 
able to live on.

That is all part of our Transhumanist future!

Cloningly yours,

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


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