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Mark H. Zellers

I'd like to suggest where I'd like to draw the line on human cloning.

There are a number of well known teratogenic substances that result in Anencephalic offspring. Imagine you could clone yourself but the embryo was purposely exposed to such substances. What you would end up with would be your body, but without a brain. A perfect source of spare parts.

I'm not quite sure why, but being able to take a cell and grow a specific organ from it (i.e. a new heart, liver, spleen, etc) would not bother me quite as much.

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