We began discussing human cloning, and someone mentioned a noted bioethicist who believed that the parents of a deceased child should be allowed to create a clone of that child. My friends were curious: “Would the clone begin life at the age its original version died?†“How would you tell the clone about its origin?†Nobody appeared discomfited by or even aware of the words that seemed to come so naturally: The Clone. It. Version.
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