[Chemist_Geek]

I guess what I'm saying is, spiritual/religious issues aside, is that we don't know what the consequences are for the clone or the rest of humanity on a purely medical level, and I would hate to see some hapless people suffer because of some scientists'(like Clonaid scientists) zeal.

How will we find out, but through experiment? Theory is nice, but someone's gotta get in the lab and do it to find out...

[MHGinTN]

How will we find out, but through experiment? Theory is nice, but someone's gotta get in the lab and do it to find out... Let the research perfect the cloning process with higher 'other' mammals, to the extent that a clone may be conceived, implanted, and born, as a singlet embryo (with no toss outs of failed embryos) and I wouldn't picket the clone techs. But therapeutic cloning has a quite different object; this use of cloning seeks to conceive individual human life, give it life support for a while until tissues differentiate to the desired age, then kill and harvest the cloned individual human. That's cannibalism. I'm not accepting cannibalism for my nation without a good fight.