# A clone is born **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106 "2002-12-27T05:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/41 "2002-12-28T22:58:36Z")
The only date that I remember clearly is my birthday… Other then that, I’m lost. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/42 "2002-12-28T23:01:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\*Begun, this Clone War has! \*\* I would like to applaud you for getting in with this quote before anyone else did. Jolly well done. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/43 "2002-12-28T23:45:21Z")
I thought Human Cloning was illegal. Isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/44 "2002-12-28T23:48:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BioHazard \* > \*\*I thought Human Cloning was illegal. Isn’t it? \*\* Some countries have yet to pass laws in respect of human cloning (whether therapeutic or reproductive). ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/45 "2002-12-28T23:54:34Z")
I guess I can see a war with this issue involved sometime in the future. But, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/46 "2002-12-29T00:02:54Z")
Here’s a link to what I think is a great editorial cartoon by Pat Oliphant regarding this topic: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20021227/cx\_po\_uc/po20021227](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20021227/cx_po_uc/po20021227) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/47 "2002-12-29T00:09:43Z")
“Raelian sect gets the kind of serious money required to clone 5 people.” They believe that we came from aliens too, maybe the aliens gave them the money. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/48 "2002-12-29T20:18:56Z")
Well, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and Its supposedly happened, so we might as well just get used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/49 "2002-12-29T21:17:01Z")
Or we could have a war over it… ---
**Author:** ![deborak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@deborak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deborak)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/50 "2002-12-29T22:02:15Z")
Straight from the mouth of the scientific director of Clonaid, [here](http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/human.cloning/index.html) is all the proof you’ll need: > [@](#): > > “The best proof that we can have is probably the grandmother, who said she looked just like the mother,” Boisselier announced Friday at a news conference in Florida. Who needs that stupid old DNA testing anyway? If the baby looks like the grandmother, then it _must_ be true! It amuses me that this is the scientifc director spouting such nonsense… ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/51 "2002-12-29T22:26:31Z")
3 hijacks: 1. The doctor is saying the grandmother claims the baby looks like the mother did when _she_ was a baby. I think. Hardly scientific, as you say. 2. The really scary thing about cloning, to me, is the possibility of a clone army, bred to be heartless warriors, shielded from all culture so as to lack any compassion for the people they’re killing. Too many sci-fi novels, I know. But it _could_ happen. 3. Every time I see this thread title, I think: _“A clone is born / In hard-time Mississippi…”_ Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106/52 "2002-12-29T22:29:13Z")
Huh, _my_ grandmother says I look just like _her_ mother, who died in 1918. I didn’t realize they had cloning back then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born/145106.md?page=2)