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To: wagglebee

Let's add a more orwellian implication to this.

Let's assume that the technology gets to the point where it's easy to gestate human beings in vitro from a fertilized egg. Who controls the process? What happens if those in control decide to use it as an "efficient" way to produce human beings?

There is nothing to prevent those who control such a process from abusing those produced from the process. If human life becomes a mass produced commodity, at what point does it cease having anything but minimal economic value?

Clearly, this is something that's in the realm of science fiction right now. But fast forward technology 50-100 years, and you might see it.


55 posted on 04/30/2006 5:24:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

I don't think it's even necessary to fast forward 50 years, twenty years ago the notion of cloning was seen as very distant, it is now reality. What you describe could probably be done TODAY with enough financial resources.


56 posted on 04/30/2006 5:29:07 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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