It's not yet possible, Mackellar elaborated in a BBC radio interview, and I am sure it's going to take quite a few years before it is possible. Kennedy's declaration in 1960 that within this decade, we will land a human being on the moon. A huge problem lay between the dream of male couples being able to have children and its realization. Unlike simple human cloning which would allow two lesbians or even a single woman to bear a child conceived through cloning, the child of an all male couple would have to overcome a major obstacle called imprinting . Normal development in mammals require both male and female genomes because they have complementary information.
Many studies show that there are some genes that are only active when they come from the mother.
Scientists are a long way from understanding how this mechanism works. However, that was no obstacle to the uninformed gay press and a religious group seeking to exploit cloning and the gay community. It was an optimistic and seriously misinformed news story. One of the interesting things about both the gay community and the gay press is how only a few comprehend heterosexual reproduction. This is understandable.