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...then reimplanted in the uterus. By carefully scrutinizing the developing embryo in the test tube, doctors could spot serious genetic deficiencies and decide not to reimplant it, thus avoiding an abortion later on. If the embryo is normal, it could even be reimplanted in the womb of a donor mother and carried to term there, enabling the woman either unable or unwilling to go through pregnancy to have children that were genetically...
...scientists, could one day clone (from the Greek word for throng), or asexually reproduce himself, in the same way, creating thousands of virtually identical twins from a test tube full of cells carried through gestation by donor mothers or hatched in an artificial womb. Thus, the future could offer such phenomena as a police force cloned from the cells of J. Edgar Hoover, an invincible basketball team cloned from Lew Alcindor, or perhaps the colonization of the moon by astronauts cloned from a genetically sound specimen chosen by NASA officials. Using the same technique, a woman could even have...
Human cloning, the asexual reproduction of genetic carbon copies, raises similar questions. Who shall be cloned, and why? Great scientists? Composers? Statesmen? When Geneticist Hermann J. Muller first broached the idea of sperm banks in Out of the Night (1935), he suggested Lenin as a sperm donor. In later editions, Lenin was conspicuously absent, replaced on Muller's list by Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes, Pasteur, Lincoln and Einstein. Society could well be as fickle?or worse?about cloning. It might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race...
...MANY CRITICS cloning is only one of several biological developments that threaten what Paul Ramsey calls "a basic form of humanity": the family. Ramsey thinks that artificial insemination by a donor, which is already fairly common, has opened the door to further invasions of family integrity. In his recent book Fabricated Man, he mentions other possible developments: artificial inovulation (the "prenatal" adoption of someone else's fertilized egg), "women hiring mercenaries to bear their children," and "babies produced in hatcheries." Beyond finding some of the possibilities repellent, Ramsey argues that they violate "covenant-fidelity," a bond of spiritual and physical...
...doctor and a Yale law professor said last night that society has not yet found means of deciding who will be donor and who recipient for heart transplants. Speaking to a Harvard Law School Forum in the Ames Courtroom, Dr. Michael DeBakey and Guido Calabresi stressed the moral and social problems of heart transplants...