"Cloned" woman could dispel cloning fears

Check out this video I found of Kim Taylor of Hackney in London, who claims she is a human clone.

The thing that strikes me about Kim is that whilst claiming she is the same genotype as someone else, she talks about developing her own identity. Academics call this the concept of Genetic Determinism, the idea that someone with the same genotype as another develops a different personality and identity. To me, she also presents a more human side of the reproductive cloning debate, and it is this which could dispel some of the fears about cloning for reproductive purposes.

Now although Kim makes a good point, I am unable to verify if she is a real person/ clone as my searches of facebook, linkedin, google and scholarly articles have not brought up anything. But whether this is a true account or not, Kim raises some relevant issues in the debate. And while we don't need to believe Kim in her account, scientists believe that we are getting closer to producing the first human clone.

The concept of reproductive cloning is one that I will be exploring further in this blog. I will be leaving the issues of therapeutic cloning aside to focus on the debate about human reproductive cloning.