From: Ralph Lewis (rlewis@csulb.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 12:15:38 MDT
Why pigs with gills? Why not modify the clone to max out human traits such
as the models on this morph site?
http://www.roughcyberstuds.com/morphedmuscl/N/NG12.jpg
I know guys who would line up with all their wordly possessions to look like
this!
Best Ralph
At 01:33 PM 09/18/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>On 9/18/00, at 11:44 AM, Barbara Lamar wrote:
>
>>Actually, I think cuteness may have a lot to do with most people's idea
>>of when a fetus becomes a person. If you look at the antiabortion web
>>sites, you see lots of photos of nearly full-term fetuses thrown into
>>garbage bags or chopped up into pieces. These get to you a lot more than
>>photos of human embryos that look like pigs with gills. I think if a
>>person wanted to "get away with" cloning humans, they'd want to alter the
>>genetic makeup to the extent of giving the creature a hideous appearance,
>>a face and form that not even a mother could love. A gargoyle.
>
>*Is* there a face and form that not even a mother could love?
>
>Years ago, I was going to write a novel about a research team developing
>highly modified human beings. In the story, they decided for mumble-mumble
>scientific reasons that the first fetus should gestate inside a host woman.
>The novel was going to be primarily from her POV -- how does she deal with
>the conflict: this is *her baby*, but it's not human.
>
>I suppose this will become a real issue before long.
>
>
>-- David Lubkin.
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Ralph Lewis, Professor of Management and Human Resources
College of Business
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
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