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Originally Posted by aklim
Well, the problem is tissue rejection. Even if there is no outright rejection, the patient has to be on immunosuppressives for the rest of their lives. Not the best thing in the world. Cloning offers you the opportunity to take their own tissue which removes the chance of rejection.
Therein lies the problem. Will it be a more useful harvest once it is grown from a fetus to a child? Secondly, if it were grown to a child, you cannot harvest since there are laws that say that child is now a human being. Harvesting can only be done BEFORE it becomes a human being.
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I didn't know that there was a law about harvesting. That's interesting. It says you can't do it on humans, presumably without their consent? But with their consent I guess one major barrier falls.
But doesn't that beg the question a bit?
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