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daniel-r-h asked:

I’m surprised to see you recommend Medicine in the Age of Cloning; doesn’t that mostly talk about how cloning is useful for medicine? Sure, it does have a section on ethics, and it does mention potential future technologies like single-organ cloning, but overall it sounds like a pro-cloning book. Same with the CLDF cases; often, they lose.

My perspective on Medicine in the Age of Cloning is that the author perceives it as a short term solution that is harming long term research.  It’s good (in terms of physical health outcomes) for rich people now; but it is bad for rich people in twenty years, it’s bad for poorer people now, and if you read her footnotes she talks about mental health effects.  Better to read that than Fifty Reasons to Clone Yourself or, worse, Transplants (Without the Indefensible Use of Animal Sources or Accident Victims).

The CLDF cases are a useful cross-section of what the current issues over the years have been.  They lose, but that’s because things are horrible; it’s not a partisan anti-cloning fact.