Because the technology that produced Dolly could be theoretically applied to humans, the response from the public was immediate. Cloning of humans diminishes the dignity in all of us. After all, my clone would be more of my personal body than a fetus is to its mother. Even President Clinton weighed in with an opinion. I believe we must respect this profound gift and resist the temptation to replicate ourselves.
Cloning can mean a couple of different things.
In 1993, Dr. Jerry Hall and Dr. Robert Stillman, infertility researchers at George Washington University, successfully split a human zygote into two separate zygotes with the same genetic makeup, essentially the same process that occurs naturally with identical twins. They had created a clone, a second individual with the exact genetic blueprint of the first. The birth of Dolly, though, changed all that. Dolly, the cloned lamb, was a very unique kind of twin. Her genetic double was an adult born years earlier.