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Human Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds


The recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep—
in which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce
a lamb with identical DNA—has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These
concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about the
considerable impact cloning may have on the animal breeding industry, but rather
about the possibility of cloning humans. For the most part, however, the ethical
concerns being raised are exaggerated and misplaced, because they are based on
erroneous views about what genes are and what they can do. The danger, therefore,
lies not in the power of the technology, but in the misunderstanding of its
significance.

Producing a clone of a human being would not amount to creating a "carbon copy"—
an automaton of the sort familiar from science fiction. It would be more like
producing a delayed identical twin. And just as identical twins are two separate......

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