Medical Ethics | Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction

From Scotland comes news that a team of fearless scientists has cloned a sheep. One might consider this development one worrisome step for sheep, but more likely it is a very big and very dangerous step for humankind.

The Uproar over Dolly

“Dolly,” as she was christened, was produced in a laboratory where a cell taken from the udder of one sheep was fused with another sheep’s egg, from which the nucleus had been removed. The resulting embryo was then implanted in a surrogate mother and brought to term. Dolly is the genetic twin of the sheep from whom the cell...

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