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Hmmm... I'm not THAT kind of tree-hugging hippy you know, these characters believe we're descended from ET's (FFS!)
Anyhoo, as a molecular biologist, I think the reported production of this child engenders a great deal of scepticism: I personally would need considerable convincing from verifiably impartial sources that it was a true clone rather than a scam.
Morally I think it is reprehensible, research on Dolly has shown that clones are born "cellularly old" i.e. if I cloned a child from myself tomorrow it would begin at 41 years old (from the point of view of its chromosomes).
Ageing is partly about shortening of the the end bits of the chromosomes (the telomeres) and no amount of modern science can reverse this, at my age my telomeres are not as long as they would have been at birth, hence "cellular ageing"
If this child is as it is reported to be, I think it is in for a relatively short and unhappy life, I certainly wouldn't do it!
Steve