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Quote by: Ender's Shadow  Let me start by stating that the cells from cheek tissue are biologically different from the zygotic cell. If left to grow and divide, the cells from your cheek tissue would not create new cell tissue such as heart and brain tissue and eventually a whole human body. Instead, the cheek cells would divide into more and more cheek cells. This is how cheek cells differ from a zygotic cell, which does in fact develop into an entire human body.
And to press the issue of something not being living until self-awareness, I question if a coma patient has self-awareness while still in a coma. Without any brain activity, I doubt it, but yet they are still recognized as human beings. In some cases the brain will repair its self and the person will awake from their coma. I see this as being near enough the same as an embryo in development. |
A cloned baby will learn just like the rest of us, right! Indistinguishable from any other human.
Are the ingredients for making life that are intentionally separated a form of murder? Cloning doesn't take place because, we intentionally keep scientists from doing that kind of work. Millions of cloned humans have been denied the right to live because of .... Their vast contributions to society will not be realized.
I don't have a problem with cloning. I'm more concerned with equal rights being afforded the cloned people.
So at what point of conception does murder become pertinent?