raised the possibility that a human could also be cloned. This discovery is presenting the federal government with some serious and difficult policy issues. Soon after the news of the birth of Dolly, Congress and the administration began considering action to limit human cloning research and the ban the actual cloning of a human being. The chief concern was whether sheep cloning would soon lead to human cloning. This fear was heightened when the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center revealed just a few days later that it had cloned rhesus monkeys using nuclear transfer technology. (Issues in Science and Technology, v13) Although this is a well-established method involving the transfer of a full set of chromosomes from one embryo cell to another, the process had not been used successfully in primates until now. Many scientists and ethicists, however, are warning against swiftly implementing legal restrictions without first thoroughly analyzing all aspects of cloning technology. President Clinton set the stage for the cloning policy debate by banning the use of federal funds for human cloning research and requesting that the private sector voluntarily abstain from such research for 90 days. He also asked the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) to investigate the implications of human and animal cloning. Although scientists and ethicists generally agree that there are some uses of cloning technology that clearly are morally wrong, the federal ro
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