Should Scientists Be Allowed to Clone Children?
             The cloning procedure involves taking an unfertilized egg from a female, removing the nucleus, which contains most of the genetic information, and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from the adult person to be cloned. The most difficult part is to make the egg to act as if it has been fertilized by a sperm and start dividing as if it is an embryo, instead of just creating more skin or liver cells or cells of whatever organ the nucleus was taken from. In the case of success, the fertilized egg would grow to 50 to 100 cells and the embryo would then be transferred to a female. In 1997, embryologist Ian Wilmut and his team had successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly from mammary cell ewe. This provided an important new research tool and has shattered a belief widespread among biologists that cells from adult mammals cannot be persuaded to regenerate a whole animal (Beardsley, 1997). However, the news was used to foresee a revolution in human reproduction. Human cloning became a real possibility and the focus of the society. As a result a race began, who first will clone human an embryo, R. Seed in 1998, S. Antinory in 2001, P. Zavos, Clonaid Co. and ACT in 2001 claimed they had successfully cloned human embryos (Weinberg, 2002). Nevertheless, the further development of these embryos have not been reported. When a private U.S. genetic research firm, Advanced Cell Technology Inc., reported they had successfully cloned human embryo, the embryo had reached only six cells before it stopped dividing. (Dunn, 2002). The reproductive cloning technology in this time is not ready to be tested on humans because it is unsafe and it gives the great possibility to pass the mutated genes from person who lived for some period of time, but therapeutic cloning can be useful in developing treatments for degenerative and genetic diseases.
             It is clear, that the technology for human cloning is not re...