Humans have within their grasp the ability and technology to
             create life. Many believe that this knowledge will lead to
             further degradation of the human spirit. But others, like
             Prometheus and his gift of fire, believe that new technology is
             the key to a new, and better, reality. Genetic engineering and,
             specifically, cloning, of human life has become an issue of
             extreme gravity in the age of technology where anything may be
             dreamed and many things are possible. Cloning is a reality in
             today's world: "Three months ago, Gearhart and Thomson announced
             that they had each isolated embryonic stem cells and induced them
             to begin copying themselves without turning into anything else.
             In so doing, they apparently discovered a way to make stem cells
             by the billions, creating a biological feedstock that might, in
             turn, be employed to produce brand-new, healthy human tissue.
             That is, they discovered how to fabricate the stuff of which
             Leon R. Kass proposed three perspectives that serve to
             classify the ways people think of cloning as beneficial:
             The technological perspective "will be seen as an
             extension of existing techniques for assisting
             reproduction and determining the genetic makeup of
             children. Like them, cloning is to be regarded as a
             neutral technique, with no inherent meaning or
             goodness, but subject to multiple uses, some good, some
             bad. The morality of cloning thus depends absolutely
             on the goodness or badness of the motives and
             intentions of the cloners ... by the way the parents
             nurture and rear their resulting child and whether they
             bestow the same love and affection on a child brought
             into existence by a technique of assisted reproduction
             as they would on a child born in the usual way. The
             liberal (or libertarian or liberationist) perspective
             sets cloning in the context of rights, freedoms and
             personal empowerment. Cloning is just a new option for
             exercising ...