RE: Skeptic Michael Shermer comes out in support of human cloning

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 01:50:09 MST


Lee Daniel Crocker writes

> > (Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>):
> >
> > It will be tragic if the cloned children suffer
> > from medical problems. But we don't stop people
> > with hereditary illnesses from having children,
> > and their kids also face an increased risk of
> > problems.
>
> Actually, there is an emerging body of civil law
> in "wrongful birth" suits.

Complete insanity.

> They're not yet common, but some courts have recognized
> the basic principle that parents have an ethical duty to
> minimize the possibility of creating a child who will
> suffer from their negligence.

Yes, THAT's true, but that's because it is better for
a person without defects to live than a person with
defects.

But for the person with defects, e.g. me, to be anything
but extraordinarily grateful that he got to live is
stupid and silly. Apparently people, if they're honest
and not just out for a fast buck, who file such law
suits against their parents don't realize that a blemish
free version of them would be someone else.

Lee Corbin



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