Cloning is not new. Experiments with frogs and toads date back to the 1970s. And experiments involving plants and animal embryos have been performed for years. But experiments involving human beings have never been tried or thought possible, until "Dolly," a sheep named after a prominent country musician. Her birth shocked the scientific community and has spurred discussion about the possibility of human clones. Dr. Lee Silver, a molecular biologist at Princeton University, is optimistic that "human cloning will occur," and that "it might take five years, ten years at the outermost." Lee notes that at this time, "no ethical doctor would do human cloning” (Rantala 21). Although this view is predominant among many scientists, some argue that a safe technology could be developed in the future.

One question is what if this technology got into the wrong hands? Further, what if Hitler had this technology in the 1940’s? Each generation has

On February 23, 1997 the first mammal in history was cloned. A sheep, its name was “Dolly.” Within weeks, scientists in Oregon introduced to the world a pair of cloned Rhesus monkeys. Just a day after hearing this news the president, Bill Clinton, formally requested that the National Bioethics Advisory Commission “Undertake a thorough review of the legal and ethical issues associated with the use of this technology…,” and had announced his intention to start an advisory group on bioethics eighteen months before. "We know there is virtually unanimous consensus in the scientific and medical communities that attempting to use cloning techniques to actually clone a human being is untested, unsafe and morally unacceptable," said Clinton.

Nobody knows the future of human cloning or what direction it will take. Human cloning is appalling and irresponsible with numerous side effects resulting in malformation and death. It should not be allowed to happen. Cloning would lead to the loss of hundreds of innocent lives. After all, how can we measure the value of a human life?

However, Second Chance was born sickly and would have died from numerous ailments without intensive veterinary care. The calf apparently recovered from his ailments, but it remains to be seen if he will be as productive as his father.

Human cloning is a very complicated procedure. The cloning technique is called somatic cell nuclear transfer, the process used to create “Dolly” the sheep. Her DNA was taken from a single cell from her mother’s egg, which is fused with a mammary cell. The fused cell soon develops into an embryo. The embryo is then implanted into a “surrogate” sheep, which then grows to be identical to the donor. However this process does not work every time. It took over 277 attempts for “Dolly” to be created as a healthy viable sheep (Mcgee 101).

It is very easy to assault human cloning without knowing that much about it. There maybe some who proclaim a more positive outlook on human cloning. Human cloning research could help doctors determine the cause of spontaneous abortions, give an understanding of the rapid cell growth of cancer, allow the use of stem cells to regenerate nerve tissues, and advance work on aging, genetics, medicines. It could also cure a huge excess of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and even diabetes.

According to Seppa, “1 in 12 couples is affected by infertility”. This new technology gives the infertile a chance to have biologically related children. Individuals would now be able to start a new life right from the beginning or raise an identical child after an unfortunate death. This could ev

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