But Kentucky fertility specialist Panos Zavos wants to change all that. Zavos and an international team of doctors say that within two year and a half years, they will produce the world's first cloned baby. He says the procedure would be offered only to infertile couples. We will clone a human for therapeutic purposes. This is not just to clone anyone that wishes to do that.
Wicker sees cloning as a way to cheat death.
I would sort of like live on through my later-born twin. But critics say much more research needs to be done before human cloning is considered safe. Even the cloning of animals like sheep, cows, pigs and mice is still far from foolproof. For example, at Infigen, a leading animal cloning company, the highest success rate so far is only 15 percent. Bioethicist Alta Charo says human cloning carries an unacceptable risk of miscarriages, stillbirths and birth defects.