Surrogate Mothers
There's been lots and lots written about the ethics of commercially cloning dogs and other pets -- a practice I see as a prime example of extreme human idiocy. Who spends gazillions of dollars cloning a pet dog when it's widely known that (a) the resulting puppies won't be copies of the origianl dog, (b) they'll likely have health problems, and (c) there are SO MANY PUPPIES that need homes? The answer: Very disturbing people, that's who. (And it doesn't look like this problem is going away any time soon.) I say all of this to raise yet another issue I have with the commercial cloning of…