I would guess this has been asked before, and it is hard to know the truth as of yet, but will clones have legal rights? Will (do ) they have a soul? What about a birth certificate— who are the parents listed.
I know that they can create cloning for medical purposes… say if your liver fails. What if that clone does not want to help the “original” out with the spare body parts. IMO it is a copy, different from a twin, since twins have differences.
It is very weird to me. Any thoughts?
~Sky~, identical twins are technically clones. They share the exact same DNA, as do clones. They aren’t any different than anyone else, other than the fact that they are a copy of someone else. As far as parents? Probably whoever’s egg was used.
So if they used my egg, I would be the mother to my clone,which is more like an identical twin.
But twins have different opinions, one may be left handed the other right handed,they have different personalities…where a clone is an exact copy so would not everything be the same?
If a person is cloned at age 35, and the clone is created as a 35 y/o insted of infant state, will it recall the same memories?
Just a lot of un known territory with all this, and I wonder who will set up the boundries (like legal, medical, etc.)
The clone would always be made at infant state (using the technology they have) since they’re using a human egg. It doesn’t have the same memory or anything, since the DNA is identical, not the actual being. The clone is still subject to outside influence after birth, so it may not look exactly or think exactly like the mother, just like identical twins are like.
Yes, you’d be the mother (sort of). You’d have a similar relationship to the baby as twins to, but only because you have the same DNA. You’d still be much older. It isn’t like Sci-Fi shows exactly.
The egg used for cloning is stripped of it’s own DNA and essentially becomes little more than a growth medium for the DNA of the person being cloned, so the source of the egg is irrelevant to the genetic makeup of the clone.
Just to add to the existential confusion, the Raelians had a float in last summer’s Gay Pride Day parade in Toronto. 
Sunspace, the Raelians are always at Divers/Cité in Montreal.
They’re creepy. :eek:
Hey. whatch it, buddy.
Although I have to admit… those Quebecois poeples are weird… something about trying to seperate from Canada cuz they spoke more french? “Vivre le Quebec libre!” … I speak french fluently… that doesn’t mean I wanna seperate from my family cuz they don’t speak the same language as me… Sorry, I know the seperatists are off topic… but Splanky, not ALL Canadians are weird. Just the Qeubecers.
Yeah!
So these people are intelligent enough to clone a human being but still chuckleheaded enough to believe we’re all clones of E.T.s?
What doesn’t compute here?
The Raelians don’t need to be intelligent enough to clone a human being - they merely need to have enough money to purchase the skills and facilities of someone capable of carrying out the extremely well-documented procedure for somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Even Severino Antinori, the Italian gynaecologist who was in the race to produce the world’s first human clone, doesn’t claim to have performed the procedure himself, but rather to have “facilitated” the project.
Until - and unless - Clonaid or Antinori publishes their work for peer review (and I sure as hell wouldn’t if I was planning on charging people huge amounts of money for the technology), we’ll remain pretty much in the dark about where the procedures were carried our, by whom, and with what degree of scientific method.
OK, let me get this straight. If this is for real - and I’m not believing it for a minute - this will be recorded in history as The First Human Cloning. Schoolkids will be forced to memorize the date. And it was done, not by seemingly-benevolent scientists in the U.S., not by the evil Soviets, not by the nefarious Chinese, but by the freakin’ Movementarians?
Who, outside of Canadians, has ever heard of these people?
Begun, this Clone War has!
Yep, just like they’re required to memorize the date of The First Published Printed Book, The First Human Flight, The First Artifical Satellite in Space, The Invention of the Light Bulb, and The First Breaking of the Sound Barrier. 
~Sky~'s post has made me realize that many people may be terribly misinformed about the nature of clones (not to be condescending at all). Is this right?
Basic information on reproductive cloning here.
While a clone is a genetic “twin” Sky, any genetic mutation which has taken place during the lifetime of the parent will be reflected in the clone - thus, the clone will reflect the genetic makeup of the parent at the time the cells are removed for cloning, not the genetic potential the parent expressed at birth.l
In the future, education will be so much better, I feel sure.
Long before cloning is commonplace, parents will be clamoring for technology that lets than have 35 year-old children, thus bypassing the toilet training, terrible twos, puberty, dating and college.
It is true, I am not very informed, and I imagine there are several other people out there who are not as well.
I think I am more concerned with what else it will bring to the table. Technology is a wonderful thing, Chemo helps cure many of cancer, yet some it kills their immune system and the person as well. So I am wondering what the negative sides are, or maybe the unforseen sides. I am sure there are (will) be plenty.
I suppose I do not “trust” all the info as well. Anyone can lie and have fake reports… and I suppose :sheepish look: I am afraid of it a bit. I guess I better educate myself because it is happening!
Thank you for your replys.
You would think with all that technology a cold and a 24 hour virus would be a thing of the past already!
Just out of curiosity; what point were you trying to make here? Because I had to memorize every one of those at one point or another in my school career. I’m sure that whatever the official date for the first human clone turns out to be, school kids will indeed have to memorize it if only for some weekly quiz one day.
While I certainly remember the announcement of the birth of Louise Brown, I had to google to find the year she was born (1978).
Should “Eve” be a genuine clone, I suspect that I’ll only remember her date of birth because of its proximity to Christmas.