... sound bites bounding off satellites, it was the start of the fiercest scientific debate medical ethics the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A brave new world of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby ... forming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policy-makers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. Bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology and protesters took to the streets,...

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Cloning can be the answer to many of the threats that loom on the human horizon. I believe that it can help many people in the future. Through cloning we might eventually be able to find cures for cancer, ... AIDS, or other genetic or life-threatening diseases. We might also be able to prevent heart attacks or strokes. We may also be able to correct peristalsis, which has paralyzed many including Christopher Reeves. When scientists finally finish mapping the ... In New Zealand a team of scientists have cloned the last surviving member of a very rare breed of cow. They have cloned no fewer th...

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... on society but nothing significant or long lasting has prevailed. There is a new type of revolution on the horizon which has the potential to not only change society as we know it, but if we are not very vigilant in its use, has the potential to change the species itself. This new revolution is a technological revolution of a different order, for this new technology tinkers with ... attached to it? With regard to ideology, there is no one prevailing ideology, but rather a plethora of ideologies emanating from a myriad of social, religious, and special interest groups. Oddly enough the on...

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