Parents trying to clone baby that died...

Good Lord, why don't they just try to have another baby instead of doing that! I feel for their greif, but they need serious help on getting over the passing of their child!

So needless to say, I don't agree with what they are doing!

I feel horribly that they lost a child but I do NOT agree that they should clone the poor baby that died. It would never be the same as the other child and the grief is still always going to be there that they lost the child. I do not know how they think that this child can ever be like that one that died. I mean I understand about the cloning and how it will look like the baby but to me it would never take the place because I would know that I lost a child and nothing would EVER make me forget that!

I think they need to wait a while and then try to have another child. As painful as it would be to have another child I think it would be even more painful to have one that looked just like the baby that had died!

The baby that died, Andrew, died years ago. They already have a new baby boy but still want to make what they are calling "Andrew's twin" Imagine how their new son will feel knowing that he wasn't good enough.
They say they know that it won't be andrew but they want to have the chance to look into the same face again.
I think it is creepy and they need serious help.

Good Question but i am not touching that one.

They are in need of some desperate help or at least having someone exam their heads. Hello people, why would you want to bring a child back knowing when you look at him it would be your first born it would be the third. What about their child now, do they only think for themselves and don't care what the rest of the family thinks. This to much.

Ok, as someone who has lost a child not that long ago..I must tell ya's. First..these people are in my HO kookie. And I see it this way...we had a chance to have the doc cut open our son to see why we lost him. Yeah, like I am going to let some doc butcher my son to see why we miscarried him. Heck I didn't even want him buried in the ground because it gets cold. But that is me and my hubby. For these people to want to do this after already having a healthy child says to me that they have never gotten through the lose of Andrew. I would not want to "clone" Anthony. There is and will only be one Anthony for us and he is in heaven watching over us.

Well, aside from the obvious wierdness of this...
Andrew died of serious congenital heart defects; aren't they running the risk of having yet another baby only to lose him too? If it's his DNA, wouldn't the "twin" run the risk of having the same mal-formed heart? It may not be that way, but it would seem...

Children are just so precious, and our love for them so great. It makes a parent crazy sometimes. I don't agree with them by any measure, but I do understand that they're just trying to hold on. It's the most incredible love, a parent for a child, and I can't imagine having to let go.

Okay, I am just always amazed at what apparently well educated people conceive of. I understand the pain of losing a child even though I have no personal loss, I just have friends and family with loss. One couple we know had their baby girl born prematurely at 6 1/2 months. She did really well for about 4 weeks then just nosedived and died. For 5 days after she died they were in the hospital every day to give her dead little body baths and dress her in a different outfit to take "family" pictures. I am not the one to decide their grief process but personally could not/would not do that to myself or my baby.

I have a child with a congenital heart defect and dread the day anything happens to her. I would not even think of cloning her. I have other children that are just as special and loved. I would not want them to be involved in something that complicated and controversial.

I don't understand the thinking of taking the DNA from one egg, depositing the DNA from the deceased baby into that and getting a clone. What about the DNA that was extracted? Where does that go? Into another egg whose DNA has been extracted? Where does that go? Whose to say that they won't start feeling like they have "lost" another child by extracting that DNA? What's so imperfect about that childs DNA that it needs to be replaced with the potentially defective deceased childs DNA? Aside from the medical complications of this cloned childs future, what about the ethical ramifications? This free country we live in never ceases to amaze me with what hits the headlines. Sometimes I think that the much less educated people have more common sense than the highly educated. I think some become so intelligent that they forget how to be smart.

I just think they should let the poor baby be at peace and if they want more children then so be it.

Don't try to take God's work and make it our own, be content with what he has given us. Appreciate the child, mother, sister, brother, whoever for the wonderful work he has done with that person and when they die, then remember them for all the wonderful things about them. I think we are getting way over our heads when we try to "create" people the way we want. If it comes down to that then whose to say that noone will want dark haired children anymore, or blond hair blue eyes? Or what about redheads and freckles? I think we should just be happy with the children we are blessed with, love and nurture them for the time we are given together.

LeAnn

Very well said. I agree with everything that you and Belinda said about the DNA. If they copy the DNA they would run the risk of copying the disease again. Sure they may think they can take it our of the DNA but if it is in this little boys genes I don't know if they should take the chance.

They should be thankful that God did give them a healthy child. I am sure they are. I don't know what it feels like to lose a child but I do not belive that I would be able to look in the face of another child that looked just like one I had lost! No matter how much I would want my baby back, I would not be able to look knowing I had already buried a baby that looked like that!

I do not agree. I am with Tara, why don't they just have another baby. I think it is a little extreme.