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Running head: Are We Still Afraid of Cloning? Human Reproductive Cloning
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Are We Still Afraid of Cloning? Human Reproductive Cloning Revisited
Steven M. Tuell
South University Montgomery
Are We Still Afraid of Cloning? Human Reproductive Cloning Revisited
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Are We Still Afraid of Cloning? Human Reproductive Cloning Revisited
With the birth of Dolly the sheep in 1997, the idea of human cloning would jump from
the pages of science fiction straight into the forefront of reality. The news of Dolly's birth was an
unassailable scientific milestone which quickly escalated into a worldwide controversy. Now that
a mammal was successfully cloned, public anxiety arose that cloning an actual human being
would not be far off. "Thirty-two hours after the news of Dolly… Legislator John Machi
announced a bill to make human cloning illegal in New York State" (Pence, 1998, p.1). The
uneasiness over the ethics of such an event sparred overwhelming opposition. So much so that
President Clinton ordered bans on federal support for its research, and commissioned the
National Bioethics Advisory Commissions to investigate the ethics of human cloning research.
(Kass, 1997). However, human reproductive cloning, if done responsibly, solves issues of
