Essay Archive - Human Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds
Human Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds
The recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep—
in which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce
a lamb with identical DNA—has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These
concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about the
considerable impact cloning may have on the animal breeding industry, but rather
about the possibility of cloning humans. For the most part, however, the ethical
concerns being raised are exaggerated and misplaced, becaus....
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