In 1997, the Roslin Institute in Scotland successfully cloned a sheep, which raised the question of whether cloning a human is possible. Ordinarily, species produce special sex cells. Male produce sperm and female produce egg. Each of them carries half of the information to produce a new individual known as Zygote. Half of the inheritance comes from the male’s side and other half comes from the female side. However, in cloning involves nonsexual cells which carry all the “information from adult cell to make a new individual” (Cloning: how and why, video). From 277 special cells developed 29 embryos which were microinjected into thirteen

The biggest questions for mankind focus on ethical issue about human cloning. It is unethical to clone a human being and it’s immoral. Some may say cloning takes away individual uniqueness and dignity. The more we clone, the less valuable these individual becomes. For instance, a special painting that you may like gets duplicated. The more copies are produced the less each is worth. So, how would a human clone feel if he/she is just a copy? Will scientist give a cloned human a normal life or will he/she be treated differently for experiment? The individual may be a human clone but he or she also has a heart and mind just as normal human being. More likely a human clone will attract world-wide attention, especially the very first clone. People would see the cloned human as an experiment, as rather than individual like us. The clone one day may ask him/herself why I am different from the rest of the world. There are also religious arguments about ethics of human cloning. For instance, “two leading rabbis and Muslim scholar who testified before the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) had no objection” of idea of human cloning (Yount, p.122). Reverend Albert Moraczewski of the National Conference announced cloning is “intrinsically morally wrong” and scientists are only “playing God” (Dudley, p.65). It wouldn’t be unfair if a cloned human were to get educated and one day realizes how he is simply a clone of someone and he is not unique just like the rest of us.

The practice of human cloning is now illegal in a couple of countries which include US and Russia (Hopkins, CNN). Most people are worried and few are excited about possibility of biotechnology. A few months after the birth of Dolly in 1997, President Bill Clinton banned the use of federal money to support research into human cloning (Klotzko, p. 125). Another few months later, 20 states supported the ban on experiment of human cloning (Klotzko, p. 126). However, not all people agreed in the United States to ban the practice of human cloning. Most scientists are eager to experiment human cloning. If it’s illegal here in the United States and Russia, what about the rest of world? How can we control human cloni

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