I'm hardly up to date, but the catch to cloning organs goes like this:<br/><br/>We could take some fat tissue from Blinkin and alter it into stem cells.  then we could trigger the stem cells to grow into a specific organ.  The process is still new, expensive, and generally uncertain, but the more we do it the better we'll get at it.  By implanting an organ in Blinkin' made from his own genetic material, his body is a hell of a lot more likely ot accept it, and he won't have to be on imunosupressents for the rest of his life to stop his body from rejecting the organ.<br/><br/>The catch is stem cells.  That exact same patch of stem cells we could make grow an organ could be triggered to grow a clone of Blinkin.  That clone wouldn't be Blinkin', that would be Blinkin's twin brother.  Because US society--at least--hasn't been able to come to and accept a consensus about when a<em>potential life</em>becomes a<em>life</em>, we have moral controversy.<br/><br/>I could get more into this, but we're not in the politics thread so I won't.  Simply put, it's something we need to resolve.  Philosophers, judges, and religious leaders need to speak up on it and get the whole public in on the discourse.