Cloning - "A Step in The Right Direction"
            
             It all began with the experimentation of Dolly - the first genetically cloned animal. Since this scientific breakthrough, President Clinton, realizing the effects this would have on the human race as a whole, banned the cloning of humans for five years. However, some scientists have declared this ban as a futile approach towards cloning and that perhaps the ban levied by the former president is postponing valuable scientific research. But first, to begin with, what is cloning?
             A clone occurs when a person is said to be identical to another person (i.e. identical twins). However, no two people, even identical twins, are exactly alike in physical traits. Everyone, even twins, have their own personal traits, only found in themselves. For instance, no two people have the same fingerprints or the same freckles. There will always be a physical trait belonging to just one person and no one else. But, by the cloning of people, scientists can create an exact and precise physical replica of another person.
             Scientists agree today with what science-fiction writers projected sometime ago: It will be possible to duplicate an entire human being or, potentially, necessary parts. In that regard, science should move ahead at all possible speed in both cloning research and genetic mapping. The benefits of being able to grow individual body parts to replace those that fail, using the same genetic code, are tremendous both from a cost and a health standpoint. Technical replacements for organs and anti-rejection therapies are very costly, and for many at the lower end of the economic ladder, unattainable. Additionally, the limited number of available replacement organs mean that people in America die everyday who do not necessarily have to.
             However, growing a new liver, kidney, or lung is very different from growing an entire person. Before this technology should be pursued and put to...