Human cloning is becoming one of the most controversial topics of our time. With recent technological breakthroughs, whole new fields are opening with amazing possibilities. Despite the great advantages that cloning can offer humanity, there are just as many negative aspects of the technology, which have given way to large anti-cloning groups who are gaining ground as to the future of this awesome power. In truth, cloning could very well be the best, or worst thing ever to happen to mankind.

The possibilities of human cloning are vast indeed, but research in the area has been dramatically restricted in the United States and in some other countries. Pro-life groups that oppose free access to abortion have considerable political power, and were able to have all human embryo research banned by the Reagan and Bush administrations in most of the 1980's and the 1990's (religoustolerance). Although the ban wa

All in all, human cloning could possibly be the most significant event in human history. Should we take one road to a totalitarianistic society of genetically engineered clones like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, or a world in which parents can create designer children with the characteristics of their choice as in the movie "Gattaca"? The incredible power held within our genes could possibly lead to a perfect society where peace and happiness reign supreme, or it could very well lead to the destruction of the human race itself.

The materials to create a laboratory can easily be purchased in most major countries at a fairly cheap price. A working cloning facility could be built in a garage with as little as $10000. In reality there is no way to prevent the cloning of a human being. It would be better for someone, who is responsible enough to use the technology intelligently, than for someone to use the secret of cloning to there own advantage (Kaku).

s lifted during the first days of Bill Clinton's presidency, in 1997 he sent a bill to congress marked "immediate consideration and prompt enactment" stating that it would be illegal to create a human clone whether in private or public laboratories. Along with the US ban, nineteen European countries including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Moldova, Sweden, Macedonia, and Turkey, signed a protocol that would commit their countries to ban by law any intervention seeking to create human beings genetically identical to another human being, whether living or

Despite popular belief, cloning has been used since the early 1950's by farmers to ensure good crops using a technique in which the nucleus of an egg cell is destroyed, and replace it with a nucleus from the cell of a higher organism. The egg will then grow into a genetic copy of the donor organism. While this process can ensure crops identical to a previous harvest, It will not work on mammals, because of the tin

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