Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
So, if instead of replacing each atom with one corresponding atom, you could replace it with a pair of corresponding atoms, and then split apart the result into two foetuses?
That's a whole other issue. That might cause a moral dilemma, and I can't say off hand what I would think was right. But I think that's straying out into the morals of cloning (sci-fi cloning, not science cloning).