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Originally Posted by Seeker
Ethically, I am unsure as to where exactly I stand. I can see the benefits of the research, but I am extremely wary of it's implications also.
It is actually a huge issue that I have not put a lot of thought into, although I am aware it's happening.
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I agree that it's a bigger issue than most people are aware. Human cloning used to be a science fiction fantasy; now it's actually happening, although very quietly. In a year or so my guess is that we'll be seeing pictures of cloned babies genetically identical to their parents, and in a few years pictures of toddlers juxtaposed to pictures of their parent at the same age . . . . the debate will really start to heat up then: are these parents pioneers or pariahs?
It's ironic that it turns out that cloning can very efficiently produce stem cells. People's support of stem cell research is now pretty much inseparable from support of cloning (at least to the blastocyst stage).