Juergen Ruettgers, German Research Minister

As we approach the three year marker of the first official clone of a mammal from the tissue of another; the decision whether it was a good idea or not still ponders in the air. Is Dolly really a clone? Should we contemplate cloning humans for medical purposes? Will it ever happen in our lifetime? Who knows the answer to these questions? Scientists speculate that Dolly's cells that she was originated from came from a pregnant sheep, therefore leading to the conclusion that maybe cloning is not exactly possible. It has already been proven that pregnant mammals have fetal cells in there blood, which cloning from a fetal cell has already been accomplished. Since Dolly was supposedly cloned none others have been accomplished since her birth.

The definition of clone in Webster's dictionary consists of these words: "An identical replication grown from a single cell of the original." To clone is to produce an exact match which can never be accomplished once taking into effect the soul of an an

Pence, Gregory E. Who's Afraid Of Human Cloning. New York: Rowman & Littlefield

imal and the personality traits. To join a differentiated cell with an egg cell without its nucleus is to unite to very different cytoplasm. This forms a new cytoplasm's

The birth of Dolly prompted President Bill Clinton to call for a ban on human cloning. The issue resurfaced in late 1997 when a Chicago Physicist by the name of Dr. Richard Seed began to plan to clone people in some offshore haven where he could operate without the oversight of the federal government. Since then the Senate has considered a bill to ban all human cloning. Twenty U.S. state legislatures are considering bills to put some restrictions on cloning humans. The question still stands whether cloning of human beings will ever occur and what reactions will be in response?

Nigel Cameron, theologian, bio-ethicist, and provost,

"[Human cloning] would be perhaps the worst thing we have ever thought of in the maltreatment of our species. It would be a kind of slave class. You would have human beings made from other human beings for their purposes."

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