Hypothetical situation

[Pohlkat]

Suppose a man and a woman have a healthy child.
Then, after doing so, the woman performs instantaneous mitosis, leaving two identical copies of the woman, identical in every way conceivable.

Would the child have three legal parents?

 

[stevetastic]

thats impossible so there is no law to do with it.
rephrase your (ridiculous) question

 

[Donbett1974]

Yes. But the better question is who the other parent stays with because I doubt they share even with themselves.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

Whats the point of this thread and your question?

 

[Lukeje]

If such a thing happened, then new laws would have to be made. There are no precedents, and therefore no laws to govern it.

 

[JokerGrin]

Some rather vicious responses here...

I think there'd still just be the two parents, legally, if those laws were to exist.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Why does she reproduce by Meiosis if she is capable of Mitosis?

Yes, but I would assume the two mothers would either go their seperate ways or confront each other resulting in one being destroyed. If that didn't happen the father would get freaked out and leave...

 

[wordsmith]

Why does she reproduce by Meiosis if she is capable of Mitosis?

Yes, but I would assume the two mothers would either go their seperate ways or confront each other resulting in one being destroyed. If that didn't happen the father would get freaked out and leave...

You've never had a daydream about twins? ^_0

 

[ioxles]

If Hypothetically say, if two children were born, both childs identical in every way down to the fingerprints and every last cell a copy of each others; would it be the same person twice?

Say it was mitosis or whatever you want.

 

[VincentMm]

Suppose a man and a woman have a healthy child.
Then, after doing so, the woman performs instantaneous mitosis, leaving two identical copies of the woman, identical in every way conceivable.

Would the child have three legal parents?

No, because as this is a hypothetical question, the two women are hypothetically the same person.
Two parents.

 

[Nexus424]

Well three parents seems like the easiest way to go through with it and if the father is could enough he may be able to coax the two mothers to stay together as a family so it would be win-win

...for him at least

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Why does she reproduce by Meiosis if she is capable of Mitosis?

Yes, but I would assume the two mothers would either go their seperate ways or confront each other resulting in one being destroyed. If that didn't happen the father would get freaked out and leave...

You've never had a daydream about twins? ^_0

I do, but I'm usually a toddler on a tricycle in an empty hotel...

Twins on the most part hate their pairing and want individualism, but their case is different. They were born like that, if you suddenly had a clone wouldn't you feel violated by what you would view as not the real you?

EDIT: oh you meant that kind of daydream. Okay, the guy would probably stick around for that!!

 

[wordsmith]

Why does she reproduce by Meiosis if she is capable of Mitosis?

Yes, but I would assume the two mothers would either go their seperate ways or confront each other resulting in one being destroyed. If that didn't happen the father would get freaked out and leave...

You've never had a daydream about twins? ^_0

I do, but I'm usually a toddler on a tricycle in an empty hotel...

Twins on the most part hate their pairing and want individualism, but their case is different. They were born like that, if you suddenly had a clone wouldn't you feel violated by what you would view as not the real you?

EDIT: oh you meant that kind of daydream. Okay, the guy would probably stick around for that!!

Glad the penny dropped before I had to start shaking the jar... My only "fear" about an identicle me would be that he would try to kill me and take my life over. Or worse yet, leave me alive and do it. "I'm the real wordsmith" "no, I am!" etc.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

I started reading it and thought that it was going somewhere. Nope, another dumb waste of a thread. On topic: Yes.

 

[ioxles]

If Hypothetically say, if two children were born, both childs identical in every way down to the fingerprints and every last cell a copy of each others; would it be the same person twice?

Say it was mitosis or whatever you want.

No, because it would be impossible for two people to experience the exact same situations in life. DNA just controls your reactions to things and how you develop from that, it doesn't railroad you into one path, that's what life does.

I didn't mean down the line growing up and all that, If some one is for all practicallities a clone at birth of their sibling, everything physical identical wouldn't it be technically the same person twice.

Of course each one of them would turn out diferently eventually but thats not what I mean.

 

[Jark212]

It will work itself out, one will kill the other and good times will be had by all...

 

[Jaythulhu]

As far as I can tell, no. Identical twins are exactly the same on a genetic level. If one of them has a baby, the other twin is considered a parent. If a woman somehow split herself into twins after giving birth, I imagine the law rules would apply.

Can't confirm that though, as your question has no precedent, and is moderately far fetched.

 

[Papopapo456]

Biologicaly, the kid will have three parents; but legally I can't think what would happen...

 

[Lord Krunk]

Um, we don't reproduce asexually?

 

[Ignignoct]

Exactly the same = both think they're the mother = they both ARE the mother.

Therefore, 3 parents exist. Yes. Don't say "legally" anything. No one would arrest them, no laws are broken. If it happened, no one would tell the difference between the two moms anyway, so they could keep the same single identity.