Essay submitted by Marina

You have been told that you are unique. The belief that there is no one else like you in

the whole world made you feel special and proud. This belief may not be true in the

The world was stunned by the news in late February 1997 that a British embryologist

named Ian Wilmut and his research team had successfully cloned a lamb named Dolly

from an adult sheep. Dolly was created by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with

the DNA of another sheep's udder. While plants and lower forms of animal life have been

successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been

thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher

mammals. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the

Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this

threat. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning

research. Bills are in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning

which it taken to be a fundamentally evil thing t

Asia, Eastern Europe, or the Near East. Much of it may take place in secret, and it will

untried, is not a reason to condemn it automatically. IN the past . ,many types of

One recurring image in anti-cloning propaganda is of some evil dictator raising an army

donated sperm, eggs, or embryos. Do the potential harms outweigh the potential

Nature clones people all the time, and rather frequently. Approximately 1 in 1000 birth

involved in " test-tube babies". Today, nearly 30,000 such babies have been born in the

creation of Eve was far from cloning, it is interesting to note in passing that God's own

Germany have banned cloning, the research making cloning possible may take place in

of cloned warriors. But who is going to raise such an army. Clones start out life as

Some common words found in the essay are:
Ok Nature, Bill Clinton, Federal Government, Ian Wilmut, Napoleon's Tomb, Near East, President Clinton, Word Adam's, Sustainer Ruler, , human cloning, cloning research, argument cloning, dna sheep's, family relationship, successfully cloned, in-vitro fertilization, health care,
Approximate Word count = 1473
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)