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size=2>From: "Michael Makovi" <A
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size=2><BR>>>I haven't read the literature on this issue, but I could see
how one<BR>could hold that d'oraita, a cloned animal would be considered not
a<BR>real creature, having not come from a womb, and thus not liable
for<BR>schechting.<<<BR><BR>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>As several others have pointed out, "cloning" does NOT mean that the
animal is grown in a test tube. So far it is not possible to grow an
animal without using a womb. "Cloning" means that the genetic material to form
the new animal is taken from the nucleus of an existing animal and results in a
new animal that is a genetic copy -- an identical twin -- to the animal from
which its DNA was taken.</FONT></DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
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<DIV>IVF which is sometimes loosely called "test tube babies" does not mean that
these babies live in a test tube for nine months. It means an egg is
fertilized in a test tube -- actually a petri dish -- and then implanted in the
mother at about the sixteen-cell stage. Size of the period at the end of
this sentence. Also these babies are not clones, although some scientists
are apparently working on cloning humans (which still does not mean they would
grow outside a womb, but that the daughter would be an identical twin to her
mother).</DIV>
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<DIV>When Mother Nature splits a fertilized egg and makes two identical people
aka twins, Mother Nature herself is cloning people. But both of them have
to grow in a womb to survive.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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