num_pages: 198
description: At the beginning of 2018, Barbara Streisand was featured in an article about how she cloned her favorite dog Samantha, who had died. Science fiction ideas of yesterday are an honest reality today. This essential volume presents readers with fascinating essays that debate the issues of cloning, no doubt a subject that will only grow in prevalence. Readers will evaluate such topics as human reproductive cloning and animal cloning. They will read essays that debate whether cloned embryos are human beings. Essays discuss whether medical benefits from cloning is needed, and shed light on attitudes relating to a clone's rights and authenticity. Essay sources include Jay D. Gralla, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Suzanne Quick, and the President's Council on Bioethics.
language: English
title: Cloning
titlecomplete: Cloning (Contemporary Issues Companion)
series: Contemporary Issues Companion
publisher: Greenhaven