From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 17:40:20 MST
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 05:25 pm, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Two questions: (1) which legal structure most closely meets
> with your approval? (2) which community more closely meets
> your ethical or moral standards?
Neither. They seem to be two extremes. I think pushing human cloning
too soon is just as bad as banning it. It should proceed at the normal
safe rate that most medical procedures progress.
Why not handle this new medical procedure the way we handle other
medical procedures in development? Test in vitro until it works. Test
on animals until it works. Test on humans until it works. And then
market it to the general public. Why should human cloning skip any of
the safety steps? It is only the race to be first that is causing
these groups to skip all preliminary testing. Right now cloning is not
routinely workable for animals yet. It fails more often than it works.
Taking into account the problems with miscarriage or birth defects,
this procedures is more likely to cause harm than produce a healthy
baby. Why the rush? Why not develop the procedure until we get it
working? I rather see a lot of healthy clones in ten years than a
dozen unhealthy ones now.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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