Identity crisis
PHYSICIST Richard Seed, 69, a Ph D from Harvard University who had claimed that he will clone human beings, has said that he will first clone himself because of the possible medical risks attached to the process. He said his wife will carry the embryo which will be created by combining his cell with that of the donor's egg.
Seed was speaking at a gathering of academic researchers where he was reported to have said that cloning will be "fun", unleash a "torrent of research" and it will be the "first test towards immortality". It was reported that the researchers found three possible reasons for cloning. First, to produce child from an infertile couple. Second, to replace a dead child if conventional reproduction was impossible, and third, to produce a child who could donate some vital tissue. The critics of cloning have vehemently warned about the ethical, legal and political fallout's of cloning and argue that cloning is based on a false notion because human beings are not just their genes but are a product of many other environmental influences.
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