Cloning Regulations needed
Cloning Regulations Needed "Its a busy morning in the cloning laboratory of the big-city hospital. ... This is just one of the many scenarios people are imagining after the successful cloning--manipulating a cell from an animal so that it grows into an exact duplicate of that animal--of the sheep, Dolly. It is not the first time that cloning a mammal has been accomplished; however, it is the first time that a mammal has been cloned from an adult cell, not an embryonic one (Nash). The new cloning technique is raising many questions, the most controversial being the possibility of human cloning. ... However, the cloning of humans should be regulated because of ethical, moral and religious issues. On March 4, 1997, President Clinton temporarily banned federally funded research for human cloning in the U. ... , and gave the National Bioethics Advisory Commission 90 days to report on whether human cloning should be banned or regulated ("Clinton Bans. ... In June, the Advisory Commission recommended that Congress impose a five year ban on human cloning (Rosenblatt). ... Even Ian Wilmut, the scientist who created Dolly, is against human cloning, categorizing it as "ghastly" and "appalling" (Carlin). Theologians are also against human cloning, but for different reasons. ... Protestant and Jewish theologians encourage the use of technology to improve nature, but agree that human cloning would cross the line (Herbert).