Clinton vs human cloning : Pres ignores self-ownership

[Leroy R Sachleben Jr]

In article <AF432A06-4414D9 at 24.1.70.191>, swstark at home.com wrote:

>>       Clinton and those he seeks to appease on the statist Left & Right
>> ignore the simple human fact of self-ownership. If human beings do
>not
>> have the right to clone themselves they do not have the right to
>> reproduce in any form without government consent. The level of
>> techonology is irrelevant to the simple fact that humans have the
>> right to dispose of their own tissue in any way they see fit. The
>> alternative is state-ownership of human beings. This is
>unconscionable
>> both ethically and scientifically.

There is no right to clone. The right to reproduce is separate from the right 
to clone. At any rate, I would argue that a clone would be its own person. At 
that point, your arguement of self ownership goes south.

Roy Sachleben
University of Louisville-Biochemistry