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...marriage if a copy of me had been made to overcome infertility. My wife and I met in high school. How would she react to a physical copy of the young man she fell in love with? How would any of us find living with ourselves? Surely the older clone--I, in this case--would believe that he understood how the copy should behave and so be even more likely than the average father to impose expectations upon his child. Above all, how would a teenager cope with looking at me, a balding, aging man, and seeing the physical future...
Moreover, there is a lot we do not know about the effects of cloning, especially in terms of aging. As we grow older, changes occur in our cells that reduce the number of times they can reproduce. This clock of age is reset by normal reproduction during the production of sperm and eggs; that is why children of each new generation have a full life span. It is not yet known whether aging is reversed during cloning or if the clone's natural life is shortened by the years its parent has already lived. Then there is the problem...
...immediate response to the birth of Dolly the sheep was a revulsion against the idea of using the same technique to clone human beings. But the news had just the opposite effect on an eccentric scientist named Richard Seed, who declared with an eerie bravado that he was going to produce "half-a-dozen bouncing-baby, happy, smiling clones" before the end of the decade...
...Seed. The unemployed physicist, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in ill-fated ventures, is trying to build support and raise money; he claims to have commitments for $800,000. An impressive start, if true, but still far from the $2.5 million he says is necessary to clone the first human before...
...public announcements haven't exactly bolstered his credibility either. First he said he was going to make little baby clones for infertile couples. Then last September--"to defuse criticism that I'm taking advantage of desperate women"--he announced that he would first clone himself. Now he says he will re-create his wife Gloria, an office worker at a FORTUNE 500 company in downtown Chicago. "She's not as excited about it as I am," he says without a hint of irony, "but she's willing to help...