RE: Therapeutic cloning - technical fix to one objection?

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 22:20:27 MDT


At 12:50 PM 5/25/02 -0400, Rafal wrote:

> Say, I suppressed the
>growth of not only the brain, but also extremities, lungs, everything
>except the target organ (e.g. the liver). We would have a human clone

Not in the usual sense of the term. What we'd have is a cloned organ.

>with
>only enough genes to make a placenta and a liver, if anything an even more
>botched parody of a human being. Would the use of such liver for
>transplantation be then more repugnant to you ?

No, of course not. Bring it on!

Damien Broderick



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