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Human Cloning

What does it mean to be a clone? It could mean that you are one of a group of genetically identical individuals, the group itself more properly called the clone. All of the members of the group were likely produced in a fertility clinic by splitting a fertilized embryo into a number of pieces. Is this act of cloning ethical, or is science destroying the beauty of natural birth?
Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. The method used to initiate the reproductive cloning procedure is called either nuclear transplantation or somatic cell nuclear transfer. The initial step involved removing the nucleus of an egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from an adult. The reconstructed egg is then stimulated to begin dividing. If the procedure is successful, the cell will divide several times to produce a pre-implantation embryo- (blastocyst) t...

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