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Scientists have generated mature human embryos from cloned adult skin cells<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The scientists say they have no interest in bringing a cloned human being to term, which seems to placate people and the law. But it is the practice of destroying these embroyos that is the abomination! A cloned human being would not be, any more than identical twins, though the damage to the family is also a severe evil (since if you are cloned, your child would be your twin).<\/p>\n

Anyway, we have discussed this point before. I would like to raise another question. What we have here is asexual reproduction. We have already separated sex from procreation. We have also separated procreation from sex. (Artificial insemination at least uses the sexual cells. This method dispenses with that, finding a skin cell sufficient.) Reportedly, an artificial womb<\/a> will soon be feasible.<\/p>\n

\nDo you think, in the future, that pregnancy will become obsolete? That, once we can generate children without child-bearing\u2013with its accompanying morning sickness, 9 months of discomfort, labor pains, etc.\u2013that this will catch on? Does this also mean that marriage and the family itself will become obsolete?<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists have generated mature human embryos from cloned adult skin cells. The scientists say they have no interest in bringing a cloned human being to term, which seems to placate people and the law. But it is the practice of destroying these embroyos that is the abomination! A cloned human being would not be, any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-issues","category-science"],"yoast_head":"\nAsexual Reproduction?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scientists have generated mature human embryos from cloned adult skin cells. 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