X-Message-Number: 24578 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:06:20 -0400 From: Randolfe Wicker <> Subject: Cloning the dead Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT News stories about the announcement that Dr. Panos Zavos has created two embryos from the cells of dead people seem to focus on the fact that the cell donor was dead. Messing with "the dead" seems to touch a taboo. Of course, cloning a living person would provoke other criticisms along the lines of "egotist" etc. The nice thing about this story is that public sympathy always goes out to the parents who have lost a child. That presents those who object to cloning with more of a moral quandary. http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10613578^401,00.html Randolfe H. Wicker Founder, Clone Rights United Front www.clonerights.com Spokesperson, Reproductive Cloning Network, www.reproductivecloning.net Correspondent, Stem Cells Club, www.stemcellsclub.com Advisor, The Immortality Institute, www.imminst.org 201-656-3280 (Mornings) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24578