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Originally posted by mbossman2
Which brings me back to my original concern of: at what point does the "soul" get imbued into the developing organism. that has never been defined, and until it is, this is a ground that needs to be avoided due to the bigger picture implications of terminating a Life.
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That's the argument right there. Cloning a human for medical purposes must be done with the assumption that there is no 'soul', no right to life, no afterlife, or anything that goes along with all that stuff for the clone-ee.
The technology exists, so it's only a matter of time before it's put to use. If you guys will remember your history, the Cathloic church imprisoned Galileo because they didn't like the fact that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Throwing him in jail didn't change that fact, and it didn't change people from finding out about it either.
The interesting question, at least for the United States, is how the anti-clone people will try to legislate the ban of human cloning. They can't put any religious belief into the law, or it will be summarily stricken down by the courts. Yet the religious arguments are the only arguments they have against it.