Cloning, one step at a time...
The credit for this information goes to:
Time Magazine
February 19, 2001
How to Clone a Human
Nancy Gibbs/Society
Welcome to my DNA Future Page
"What if...a child dies and one parent wants to clone but the other doesn't? Who owns the rights to a dead person's DNA?"
The music playing is "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" and you shouldn't because...
"What if... a clone developes unforseen abnormalities? Could he sue his parents-or the cloners-for wrongful birth?"
"What if... people don't want to be cloned after they die? Will they be able to insert a do-not-clone clause in their will?"
"What if... cloning becomes popular and supplants natural selection? Will that skew the course of human evolution?"
"What if ...it becomes acceptable to clone a person once. What about 10 times? One hundred?"
How to clone a human:
1. Doctors harvest up to 15 eggs from up to 40 donors who have been injected with fertility drugs. About 400 eggs are produced
2. Cells are taken from the cloning candidate
3. After the nucleus of each egg is sucked out with a fine needle, it goes throught several processes so some of the rebuilt eggs divide to form embryos
4. Up to 50 surrogates could be needed to ensure nine or 10 prenancies of these most terminate early by miscarriage or by abortion when abnormalities are found. The single viable baby may be normal
.....Or maybe not.
The article that goes along with the above picture talks about infertile couples and desperate parents that want to have children or want to bring them back to life, but cloning needs to be involved.
Many doctors and scientists have been proceeding to continue research and experiments about cloning humans underground. After the 277th try they got right with Dolly, the sheep, they have been trying to do the same thing with human cloning.
The infertile couples and desperate parents want to have the cells cloned on the first try, not the one hundredth. But, the more scared people are of some of this research, scientists worry, the less likely they are to tolerate any of it. Other people do have different opinions on the issue of animal cloning and human cloning. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly is against cloning humans. He only attemped to make a creation to help farmers produce genetically improved sheep.
As I said before, people have different opinions that want to and don't want to clone human beings. My opinion is to clone animals because a lot of them are becoming extincted, but the human population is already very large. If you want to tell me what you think, write me on my email.
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(This page was cloned on 04/10/01)