I by John A. Shaw Human cloning, even more controversial than animal cloning, has been brought to public attention recently by the announcement by two groups that they plan to clone a human in the near future, and by hearings held by a house committee on human cloning. I pointed out in a previous article about animal cloning that cloning is one of the most controversial fields in bio-technology.
Human cloning is even more controversial than animal cloning.
Human cloning has been brought to public attention recently by the announcement by two groups that they plan to clone a human in the near future, and by hearings held by a house committee on human cloning. Clones are created when the genetic material is removed from an egg and replaced by the genetic material from another cell. The egg is then implanted into a woman. She goes through a pregnancy and gives birth to a child who is, genetically, not related to her but is, in effect, an identical twin to the donor of the genetic material. Proponents of human cloning say that it will allow certain infertile couples to produce children who are genetic descendents of one of them.