Cloning

[Jack Balkin]

Eugene Volokh writes:

"Cloning a human isactually the opposite (or an opposite) of trying to
physically perfect people:  It's trying to create a new person that's
exactly the same as the old."

  Sure, but I thought the concern was also the development of
-technologies- of reliable cloning that would make advanced forms of
genetic engineering possible.  Once we can guarantee that little Eugene
2 will develop in a womb, we can alter Eugene's DNA and ensure that
Eugenes 3, 4, and 5, each with slightly different characteristics, can be
grown as well.

Jack Balkin
Yale Law School