What impact will cloning and genetics have on personal identity?
Our looks, our personalities and our minds are all a product not just of our genes but also of our environment before and after birth. Identical twins are essentially clones of one another they have exactly the same genes but can sometimes be quite different in looks and personality. No-one would say that you didn’t have your own identity because you shared it with a twin! Of course that’s just the bare bones of the argument. The new genetics has many implications there are controversies over parents cloning a child to provide bone marrow for a sick sibling or growing organs in animals for transplant into humans. Find out what the Vatican thinks of it all.
