Human Cloning
The cloning of human beings is now very close to reality and could be here sooner than we think, that is in fact, if it is not here already. Since the breakthrough cloning of Dolly the sheep by Dr. Ian Wilmut, scientists have been rushing to be the first to clone a human being. We may learn of the first human clone only months, even years, after he or she is born--if the event hasn't happened already. The team that cloned Dolly waited until she was seven months old to announce her existence. Creating her took 277 tries, and right up until her birth, scientists around the world were saying that cloning a mammal from an adult cell was impossible (Gibbs 2001). If it took 277 tries to clone a sheep, imagine how many fetuses will die trying to create a healthy human clone. What is human cloning? Cloning is taking DNA from a human being and fusing it with another human cell. At this point in time the cell takes on the characteristics of the DNA. The newly formed cell is then placed in a surrogate mother until the cell has matured. A human clone, the clonee, is genetically identical to the cloner, the person being cloned. In other words a human clone is a ti
The Human Cloning Foundation www.humancloning.com Cloning would dramatically alter what it means to be human. Human beings are all created differently and if we began to clone, people might be apt to only clone the so-called "perfect" people. There would be a total loss of uniqueness. Uniqueness is vital to humanity. The clone would never feel individuality, they would feel as if the were in fact another human (Daniel 2001). Vere, Steven "The Case for Cloning Humans" http://www.best.com/~vere/cloning.htm
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