Human Cloning

             "Before we assume that the market for human clones consists mainly of narcissists who think the world deserves more of them or neo-Nazis who dream of cloning Hitler or crackpots and mavericks and mischief makers of all kinds, it is worth taking a tour of the marketplace. We might just meet ourselves there." (Gibbs 1)
             My research project is on human cloning and it is my strong opinion that the cloning of anyone or anything to benefit man should be looked into. But if the cloning is for recreational purposes, think it would be wrong to do to the person being cloned and the people wanting to clone them. I feel that it is a desecration either way but if it benefits human kind in anyway shape or form we should study, research and test to see if it is for a probable and righteous cause.
             "Imagine for a moment that your daughter needs a bone-marrow transplant and no one can provide a match; that your wife's early menopause has made her infertile; or that your five-year-old had drowned in a lake and you grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in lab pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientist to clone Dolly the sheep four years ago."
             "All it took was the first headline about the astonishing ewe, and fertility experts began to hear the questions every day. Our two-year-old daughter died in a car crash; we saved a lock of her hair in a baby book. Can you clone her? Why does the law allow people more freedom to destroy fetuses then to create them? My husband had cancer and is sterile. Can you help us?"
             I feel that cloning someone you loved and lost, or yourself, would be unjust and inhuman in the fact that who ever wanted the person back would later find out that th
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