*bleh* it gives me the heebie jeebies thinking about human cloning. sure it's happened [no doubt in my mind, like all the scientists would actually follow the rules] and it scares me to think of all the "mistakes" or failed attempts. where are they now? hopefully terminated as awful as that sounds. better that than keeped in a lab to have tests run upon.

creating life in a lab? not so long ago we were repulsed by the idea and the result was considered a monster even. the name frankenstein ring a bell? and now it's coming into the public's attention.

making an embryo for the explicit purpose of using part of it and then exterminating it is so much worse than abortion in my eyes. sure it there may be the day that we will make organs etc from this research, but at what cost? do we really need to be immortal? death is inevitable, but who am i to judge.

i suppose this is one of these things that will never go away. even if we banned it for the next 100 years, when the time was up it would come out again, and there would always be those who would attempt it in secret.

clones might seem a novel idea, glamorous even, but at what cost? a human life isn't just a toy. imagine being able to go to the clone shop in the future so you can get a copy of yourself. or maybe everyone is to have a clone, kept in a jar or incubator to grow to later use for spare parts should anything go wrong. sounds like a start of a horror movie to me.