The Human Cloning Controversy

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to make a headless human? (body parts) Yes, as long as no law exists banning headless humans. Before going into this controversy, some background about what has happened in cloning would be useful. Two astonishing feats have been achieved in the scientific world. One is the cloning of a sheep named Dolly, and the other is the development of headless frog embryos. Dolly was cloned in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Roslin Institute in July 1996. The headless frog embryos were manufactured in London, England, in October 1997 (this didn't get the same amount of press attention as Dolly). Not only were the time frames different between the cloned sheep and the headless frogs, but the procedures had very little in common and scientists used different methods. Before and while Dolly was being made, no law existed that banned scientific research using clones or scientific research of cloning. Within ninety days after Dolly's "birth," an announcement which did not happen until February 1997, ...

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of cloning humans. The word "clone" strikes fear into the hearts of most people. "Clone" is a word that has the same meaning as "nuclear" to some. Just saying either word frightens people because they do not understand the meaning fully and are going along on assumptions they have made from little information they have in front of them. People's arguments against cloning human beings are based on their religious beliefs or their ideas of clones as portrayed in movies or books such as Cloned or Jurassic Park.
The world would benefit greatly by having headless human "clones." Body parts come to people's mind, extra body parts.A body part shortage exists all over the world. People, ...

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