From: Kathryn Aegis (aegis@igc.apc.org)
Date: Mon Sep 07 1998 - 10:27:29 MDT
Has a certain scientist of our acquaintance bothered to issue any sort of
explanation as to how, precisely, he intends to bring a cloned baby of
himself to full term in his post-menopausal wife? Does he plan to pump her
full of hormones, or perhaps remove her womb entirely and place it in
stasis? What happened to the hordes of young fertile volunteers he claimed
were beating down his door to be the first to bear a cloned child? Has he
provided anything in way of proof that a post-menopausal female can even
sustain a pregnancy without miscarriage or serious harm to herself?
Really, I just cannot see how this man's utter selfishness and hubris does
anything to promote a rational approach to the development of cloning. If
anything, we can look forward to this being dredged up in various lawmaking
fora around the globe as a primary reason for imposing strict controls on
the technology, or banning it altogether.
Kathryn Aegis
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