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[fmh]

Have a look at this article.Korea's making advances in cloning, advances that could allow for new mediums of study in pathobiology. It could be the step towards eliminating or treating a host of diseases. At least in other nations without restrictive bans on stem cell research and human cloning. There are a lot of 'pros' for therapeutic cloning,

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[greyyguy]

The main arguement I've heard against such things are moral issues with the idea of creating life only to end it in the harvesting of stem cell or organs. And I have to say that is not something that I am entirely comfortable with either, mainly due to ethical concerns, which are different from moral ones. Is one life so important that it is acceptable to end the life of another for the sole purpose of sustaining the other's life?

Currently, the best way to grow a human heart is to grow a human. If cloning and stem cell research could find an alternate way to grow organs, then I think that would eliminate the issue. Of course, that starts a chicken-or-the-egg arguement. I don't think that we can get to that level without being able to explore current understanding of stem cells and cloning.