[mburbank]

Full scale human cloning, ie actually allowing a cloned embryo to grow into a viable baby and presumably continue to grow, Dolly like, raises all sorts of interesting (and harrowing) ethical and legal questions.

But agree with Preech, anyone who thinks it isn't going to happen at some point, maybe even soon, is being absurd or stupid.

However, all of that is, to me, apart from the issue of stem cell reserach, not because there aren't obvious connections, but because A.) People who want to do stem cell research want to do it for it's own merits, not because they are secret James Bond Villians plotting to grpow a clone army and take over the world and B.) Their will be people who have a serious interest in cloning humans to the point where they can survive on their own and their will be people to fund them, no matter who all finds it morally repugnant. I don't know how I feel about it yet, I'm still working that out. I do know stem cell research is a promising avenue toward alleviating gross suffering, and I'm pretty sure stopping it isn't going to keep human clonig from happening.