1.   But the world will never embrace the first cloned baby if it is unhealthy or deformed or the sole survivor of hundreds of pregnancies.

2.   Any senators who are worried about cloned babies should simply ban reproductive cloning.

3.   Cloned babies would be genetically identical to their adult DNA donors.

4.   For all anyone knows, a woman somewhere on this globe might be pregnant with a cloned embryo or already the mother of a cloned baby.

5.   If true, it would mean the scientists are well along the way to producing the first human cloned baby, crossing what most consider a frightening ethical barrier.

6.   Like their counterparts here, state legislators say they are concerned about the prospect of cloned babies.

7.   Nearly everyone interviewed on this subject agrees that, for several reasons, the first person to successfully produce a cloned baby will probably do so surreptitiously.

8.   Should scientists be allowed to experiment with cloned embryos, either to create a cloned baby or to extract disease-fighting stem cells?

9.   The pregnancy, if true, marks the first time a woman has carried a developing cloned embryo, bringing the possibility of a cloned human baby significantly closer.

10.   There is virtually unanimous agreement on Capitol Hill that the government should prevent the creation of cloned babies.