In February 1997, when Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists in Scotland astonished the

world by announcing that they had successfully cloned a sheep, it sparked an international

debate. Since the invention of Dolly, scientists have been faced with the imminent technology to

clone human beings. This has raised questions about what it means to be human and what

restrictions should be placed on scientific research.

Scientists should use methods of cloning of individual human cells because it provides

benefits of curing diseases and regrowth of damaged organs or tissues. However, scientists

should not clone whole adult human beings because of the violation of moral, ethical, and

religious concerns. Hence, scientists must separate making spare body parts from making whole

Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia defines cloning as:

The production of duplicate copies of genetic material, cells, or entire multicellular living

organisms. The copies are referred to as clones. Cloning occurs naturally and is also

engineered by human beings. The possibility that people might be cloned from the

assembled a group of doctors willing to work with him and has four couples who have

a single adult human had long been a subject primarily of fantasy and science fiction but

population. Another reason is that cloning could interfere with the process of natural evolution.

line in scientific experimentation. Even the scientist who created Dolly, Dr. Wilmut and his

eliminating any desirable genes in humans. Scientists are also pondering the idea of cloning

outlaw federal funding for research in human cloning, but several scientists have urged Congress

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