• Question: Could we see cloning in the future, and could we be able to control the clones?

    Asked by anon-200244 to David on 10 Mar 2019.
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      David Walker-Sünderhauf answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      Cloning of humans can probably be done in the future – it’s more a question of should we rather than can we. “Controlling” the clones is a whole different question – a cloned person would be a person, with a free will, just like you and I.
      Cloning people would be easier by implanting the embryos into surrogate mothers, so they’d just grow and develop like a normal baby, which would making controlling them the same as controlling any other person. I don’t really know a lot about research in this kind of area, and to be honest I hope we never get to that point, of making human clones for the purpose of controlling them!

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