• The difference between
  Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic cloning:
  
  Reproductive Cloning: When DNA from only one parent is put into an egg and is reproduced as an embryo to grown into a living breathing organism.
  
  Therapeutic Cloning: It similar to the point that it is cells which the DNA is only from one parent , the only difference is that these stay as cell masses. This makes stems cells without growing a living breathing organism.
  
  I wanted to make it clear about therapeutic cloning so that no one mistook it for reproductive cloning.
  
  Remember: An embryo [baby] is only possible to make if it kept inside a female womb. This is not relative to therapeutic cloning.
  
  One thing to keep in mind, with the therapeutic cloning cells cel damage will be easier to revert and fix.
  But this also means that treatments may be too expensive for people to afford.
  
  "I would/would not support legislation to allow the funding for therapeutic cloning."

• I suppose it isn't that interesting to people.

I would support it, why? The only reason to oppose it is if you view that mass of cells as human, or are a religious nutcase that opposes science and change, which I do not.

xD This forum is reeeaaally slow. Sometimes it can be days before people start responding.


I support therapeutic cloning. I support stem cell research. I see only benefits from this research and no downfalls. The people who I've heard oppose it have one of two arguments: that it is wrong to make clones of people (because they don't understand that people are no being made) or that it is wrong to "play god".

The first is obviously an ignorant argument because it doesn't take any facts into consideration and the second is just being silly, in my honest opinion. I do not believe that we will ever be able to make ourself immortal. We will never be able to stop the maturation process that ages and degenerates our cells. I don't think we'll even be able to double our life spans. What we can do, however, is ensure that we live healthy lives to our dying day.

When I had both of my children I donated the umbilical cords to stem cell research. I fully support it and really dislike hearing the argument that we do not have the power to play god so why are we doing this. I agree that this comes from ignorance and the unwillingness to listen to the facts.

I think that once people understand that therapeutic cloning has nothing to do with cloning human beings they might be more inclined to support it. Christopher Reeves was a huge supporter and let's examine what it did for him. Granted he couldn't walk but he was able to move his fingers, and in the end if I remember right he started to move his toes. That is monumental when you start out completely paralyzed and unable to move anything.

I don't believe that humans will devise a means to become immortal, just as stiletto mentioned. I believe that humans will make huge breakthroughs to prolong lives but I also think that humans are destructive in nature and will find another way to hasten the already ticking clock against them.

Reeves was a very, very unique case to begin with. He was a medical phenomenon--there was no reason he should have been alive let alone make the advancements he was able to make.

That alone is proof that what we are doing is right.

I brought this topic up this afternoon at my weekly coffee meeting with my friends and we're pretty split on it. The ones who were against it thought that growing people to take their organs is wrong (and wouldn't listen when I don't them that wasn't what this is) or that it's just "too weird" to "grow body parts". @[email protected];

I support stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. I don't see the downside to further research. If it can help save lives down the road, then it's good! And if nothing comes of it, well, at least we tried, right? Saying we shouldn't make use of stem cells is, to me, like saying that you shouldn't donate blood to save a life. It just doesn't make sense. *Shrugs*

• There is a difference between stem cells from an umbilical cord or even fetus when it comes to thrapeutic cloning.
  
  The point I am trying to make is that, Therapeutic cloning makes cells. it doesn't become a new living thing. I can take one cell from someone make copies of it and as blanks cells they can become stem cells.
  
  So spare a cell.
  
  ^^
  
  Gee no dvil's advocates...someone against this. Hmm...clever people here in menewsha.