1. And he pointed out that the entities created by cloning have no precedent in biology. 2. And, he added, if cloning creates animals that suffer and die young, can it be justified? 3. Congress should pass a bill that permits therapeutic cloning but forbids cloning to create babies. 4. Dolly, the first mammal created by cloning, gave birth to triplets last week. 5. Great Britain, for instance, has fostered research on human embryonic stem cells and became the first country to specifically allow cloning to create embryos for that purpose. 6. In many other countries leaders seem to have no trouble distinguishing between cloning for controlled research purposes and cloning to create humans. 7. Moreover, cloning creates new opportunities for lesbian couples to have children. 8. Nor would cloning create a double who would be destined to follow in the footsteps of the original. 9. She, as you probably know, is the sheep Scottish scientists miraculously created by cloning. 10. The Advanced Cell Technology embryos that were created by cloning were not even close to that developmental stage. |