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One of the biggest issues being debated since a scientist successfully cloned a sheep is human cloning. People have been pondering whether cloning human beings is ethical, and, recently, President Clinton placed a ban on further experiments involving human cloning. "Human life is sacred, "he declared. Of course it is...
It disturbs me further that, while individuals justifiably question whether human cloning is ethical, few seem to question whether the cloning of animals, or the further experiments on animals that will likely follow the cloning, are ethical. Why do we consider human lives sacred and animal lives to be scientific...
Coming as it did amid the recent cloning furor, the report of Balaban's experiments published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences created yet more public concern about biological tinkering, not to mention a fresh wave of stale chicken jokes. (Why did the mad scientist...
It was two clones too many--or, more to the point, clones too close to human for comfort. Politicians--with one eye on re-election and another on the polls (a TIME/CNN survey reported that 3 out of 4 Americans believe such research is "against the will of God")--wasted...
She may not be the last, however. As NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus told a congressional subcommittee last week, it could take just one infertile couple, arguing that cloning provides their only chance to bear a child, to turn public opinion around.