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Peas in a Pod: The Cloning Option, Page 2

Part 2: Who's the Mama? and Other Questions

Whether the original cell donor is male or female, we have an overabundance of parents, each with a biological/genetic connection to the cloned child, each with rights and responsibilities, and an impact on the child.

Questions galore

The many questions that will need to be addressed before cloning becomes the everyday alternative treatment for infertility that many predict, include those concerning:

• legal issues
• moral/ethical issues
• scientific issues

Here are some of the main questions raised in the ongoing debate:

Legalities

1. Who is legally the mother or father of a clone? Most countries determine parentage by genetic or adoptive relationships.
2. Does every human own his or her DNA along with the right to sell it?
3. Should anyone be allowed to make a financial profit from the genetic material of another?

Moral/Ethical Concerns

1. Is cloning the equivalent of 'playing God'?
2. Does every human have the right to reproduce regardless of circumstances if the price is right?
3. Who has the right, if any, to clone a deceased person?
4. Do clones have souls?

Scientific/Technological Issues

1. Veteran practitioners of mammal cloning in other species have serious concerns about the means to be used and losses that will be incurred along the way to human cloning.
2. Spontaneously aborted clones are abnormally large.
3. Within a few weeks of birth, half the cloned cows and sheep die due to slight and unforeseeable flaws in organs and tissues.

Whatever else, cloning will certainly bring new perspectives to what we know as open adoption!

Ready to Sign Up?

Despite the many concerns, issues, and unanswered questions, it has been reported that couples and individuals are lining up, ready to pay the quoted cost of $200,000 in order to participate in cloning, and several of the major players in the field of human cloning are moving ahead full speed.

© Nancy S Ashe

Credits: Research: Angela Waner

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