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If your only option to have children was to clone yourself, would you?

no frickin way. its wierd , its unethical, and its scary.

Jenn, 18
Milwaukee
, MI   USA

How could adoption not be an option? Anyway, no way.  I'd like somebody else's genes as well as mine to be in any kid that I have.

Karen, 21
Marshelltown/Ames
, IA  USA

Hmmm. Little Me's running around? I don't think so.

Eric, 19
Beverly Hills
, CA  USA

I believe that only God has the right to create human life so no, I wouldn't clone myself.

Reba, 51
Rockville
, MD   USA

I personally believe cloning is totally wrong, in every way. I think it is a good idea to clone organs for people in desperate need of transplants. But, then how far do you go with that? Doctors and scientists start playing God, and that is just wrong. So, my answer would have to be no.

Jennifer, 19
Wilkes-Barre
, PA  USA

I'm too old to be attracted to hypothetical imperatives without alternatives.

Jill, 60
Saylorsburg
, PA  USA

No I wouldn't. There are just too many questions involved with it, and there is no way in hell I would want to deal with someone exactly like me as my child, eek!

Maggie, 20
Sandwich
, IL   USA

Considering that person would be different as far as attitudes and personality, but would always be known as a "clone", that might be hard on the child. I would be useing my selfishness to fulfill a void by putting a child into this world who may be tormented because of their origin. However, if it was a common thing and was widely accepted as a way of having

Stephanie, 25
TX  USA

No. That seems reprehensible.

Talia, 23
Wilton
, CT   USA

If were the only option and I really wanted kids, then sure. I really don't see all the freakiness about cloning. We don't have the same attitudes about twins. A clone I view as a twin only younger. A separate and distinct human being with their own thoughts an life to live.  Not at all a copy or a replica.   And deserving of life and projection of that life as any human would.  I do have a problem, however, with folks who would want to clone to bring back a dead son or Hitler or some other dubious motivation.

Felicia, 35
Lowell
, MA   USA

No.

Laura, 36
Lowell
, MA   USA

Nope...I would adopt!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City
, NJ  USA

I can't imagine that being the only option, but I think I'd prefer not to take it.

Jane, 60
West Linn
, OR   USA

no way

Firelady, 23
Dallas
, TX   USA

Nope... I wouldn't want the responsibility of saying to my kid "Guess what? You're me and I'm you... now go out into the world and try to live a normal life"...

Jeremy, 14
Highlands Ranch
, CO  USA

Nah-the world can't handle two of me. ;)

Angela, 16
Aiken
, SC   USA

I hardly see how that COULD be the only option, but whatever, I'll roll with it. I guess maybe I would. It would have been nice to have had someone to guide me growing up and share a little wisdom, like "don't worry, it'll get better" or "don't you dare kiss him!"

Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario  CANADA

No.

Fisch, 45
Preston
, CT   USA

NO way... that's just too weird!

Dianne, 16
Oshawa, Ontario  CANADA

I'd rather prefer it that way...

Charlie, 21
PA

Never. Not in a million years.

Katie2, 18
Detroit
, MI   USA

Hmmm...no. One of me is enough:P

Kevin M.

Never. I'm not sure I even want kids, let along ones that are my replicas.

Shanna, 15
Cardiff  ENGLAND

Oh my god, no!!! I think a little of myself in a child is ok, but I would feel sorry for the kid if she were a complete clone of me!!!

Susan, 32
Chicago
, IL   USA

No. The world does not need another me hanging around... I would rather live without kids than clone myself precisely... though, on second thought, I could raise myself the way I always wanted to be raised... at the same time, cloning is unnatural and unethical.

Johanna, 18
OK   USA

No I ould not be cloned to have children. I think such a thing as cloning is messing with nature or God's plan.

Marci, 56
Diamond
, OH   USA

Right now, no, the technology is not up to where it needs to be where the procedure would be humane for my potential clone. . and I really wouldn't want to dedicate the extra time it probably would take to nurse my clone child to be healthy and "normal". . . .In a few years, if it becomes a fairly routine procedure, if it was my "only option" to have children, I might.. .

mothmc, 36
Los Angeles
, CA  USA

No. I think we are messing around in an area that we should not be.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick
, NJ  USA

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