George J. Annas is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law. (wikipedia)
Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.
Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case.
Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.
You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive.
I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.
Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.
