{"id":2586,"date":"2002-12-27T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2002-12-27T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/27\/human-clone-born\/"},"modified":"2002-12-27T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2002-12-27T16:58:08","slug":"human-clone-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200212\/human-clone-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Human clone born?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the first human clone is born<\/a>. Should human cloning be banned?
There are known risks with cloning:\t<\/p>\n

Many animal cloners — including Ian Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 — disapprove of human cloning. Wilmut has said it took 276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully cloned.<\/span>(CNN<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

We need to distinguish between therapeutic<\/i> cloning and reproductive<\/i> cloning. In therapeutic cloning, embryos are harvested for medicinal use. I don’t see any ethical issues in that. Reproductive cloning is a different matter. As the article says, it is a risky procedure. It isn’t a good idea to try it on humans till we get a really good success rate on animals.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b>
What would a clone be? Well, he or she would be a complete human being who happens to share the same set of genes with another person. Today, we call such people identical twins. To my knowledge no one has argued that twins are immoral. Of course, cloned twins would not be the same age. But it is hard to see why this age difference might present an ethical problem-or give clones a different moral status. We should treat all clones like we would treat identical twins or triplets. It would be unethical to treat a human clone as anything other than a human being<\/span>(Ronald Bailey – Reason Online<\/a>)<\/p>\n

There is also stuff on why<\/i> cloning could be a high-risk operation and also some sensible suggestions on what the policy on cloning should be.
Just a thought – Isn’t it possible that Hindus will look upon developments in Reproductive Science in a much more positive light than Christians or Muslims will, because our mythology already co?tains plenty of references to such things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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