Posted on 01/18/2008 10:39:29 AM PST by Squidpup
There is plenty of question already, so probably nobody will be waiting for an answer.
They are unique individuals who share a body. 2 arms (a third was surgically removed). 2 legs. 2 brains.
So let them be more fully developed into 2 separate fetuses. It is clear to see "2 souls". Initiating a clone would not be continuing the SAME person.
Now when a woman claims that what is in her womb is HER body, maybe we can start to realize that her BODY ends at the umbilical cord. That is a separate being (or beings in the case of twins, triplets, etc.).
The difference between harvesting organs from political prisoners in China and harvesting them from fetuses in the West is that the political prisoners at least had a chance at freedom and may one day see it again if the tide turns.
What if they were evil twins?
Probably so excited, he must be beside himself.
I must speak with me about this.
Damn that’s going to be rough on the dating life. What if one heads like the guy and the other doesn’t?
Newly emancipated, Daisy and Violet became citizens of the United States and returned to the only life they'd ever known: showbusiness. In 1932 they appeared in the movie Freaks, which dared to pose the question of whether or not conjoined twins can have a love life. Over the coming decade, it would become quite clear that the answer was yes. Violet, the more outgoing of the pair, had a string of celebrity boyfriends, including the musician Blue Steel, boxer Harry Mason, and guitarist Don Galvan, before becoming engaged in 1933 to bandleader Maurice L. Lambert. She and Lambert began a nationwide search for a clerk who would issue them a marriage license. Each of her requests - in 21 states - was denied on moral grounds, and lawyers were brought in to argue on Violet's behalf. One New York clerk refused to issue the license because Daisy was not also engaged. Though briefly engaged to Jack Lewis, another bandleader, she deemed him too shy for marriage to a Siamese twin.Unable to get married, Violet and Maurice split. Two years later, however, the twins' agent Terry Turner announced that he could arrange for Violet to marry after all - she only needed a groom. Chosen for the role was Violet's dance partner and a longtime confidant of the twins, James Walker "Jim" Moore. The wedding, such as it was, took place on July 18, 1936, at the Texas Centennial Exposition on the 50-yard line of the Cotton Bowl. Daisy, too, got to experience wedded bliss when she married vaudeville dancer Harold Estep, stage name Buddy Sawyer, at Elmira, New York, on September 17, 1941. Their marriage lasted two weeks.
Jokes aside, I think it's obvious that a cloned embryo has a unique soul. They are just artificially created identical twins. Although they might turn out very similar if raised in a meticulously recreated enviroment, there's no way to completely duplicate the life experience. They would always be their own person, even if they look like some nutty egotistical scientist.
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