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The Ethics of Cloning

“On Sunday morning, 23 February 1997, the world awoke to a technological advance that shook the foundations of biology and philosophy. On that day, we were introduced to Dolly, a 6-month-old lamb that had been cloned directly from a single cell taken from the breast tissue of an adult donor.“ (Brannigan 10) I assumed that humans would be cloned shortly after I heard about Dolly. To my knowledge no humans were cloned immediately following the announcement, but the thought seemed very real – the future held all new possibilities for the human race.
But while watching David Letterman a few years later on his late night talk show, he announced that ‘Dolly the Sheep was dead.’ Although the Letterman show is mainly a comedy talk show, I was not sure if I should feel a little sad because of the news of the first cloned mammal being put down because of a progressive lung disease. Or, should I and the rest of the nation have felt relieved that the process......

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