Isn't it obvious? This is a CHILD, not a CHOICE!
Makes me wonder..... and changes the dynamic in a lot of ways.
Keeping 2 or 3 clones in a pen in the backyard for organ transplant purposes.
I bet the PETA people will have no problem with it.
Too late. We just publically funded the NIH, which is using an existing line of stem cells to research diseases. An existing line of stem cells is duplicated over and over so some claim that these aren't really body parts. But the fact remains tht the original line was ripped out of the bodies of human beings harvested [farmed] and then killed for no other purpose but to benefit those already living.
When we compromised on stem cells and called it victory, we shouldn't be surprised over cloning and other morally abhorrent things that spring up out of the part of the scientific community that is radically atheist.
Cloning technology is unlikely to result in the births of many cloned persons; no society so utterly consumed with its own wants is likely to be interested primarily in sharing the world with any new life. So even if we can set aside most of the Brave New World images of stultified servant classes, raised as property (though no doubt there will be an distasteful but lucrative trade in made-to order sex slaves, sterilised for both convenience's sake and to prevent accidental inbreeding) there remains the fact that the pulsing contents of many a test tube and petri dish will be held as property of the powerful.
They already do, each and every time they rip a baby out of the womb.