To Clone Or Not To Clone…

Technology has come a long way over the past century. There is an advance in medicine, equipment to help people with their everyday needs, and faster communication. Everyday someone is trying to improve or help society with inventions and discoveries. Scientists have been experimenting with the ability to clone since 1962, when John Gurdon claimed to have cloned frogs from adult cells. The next surprising outbreak in cloning was in 1996 when scientists successfully cloned an offspring from adult sheep cells. Now scientists want to move on to larger experiments in cloning. In 1997, Richard Seed announced his plans to clone a human. Human cloning is a controversial topic which is being argued in our nation’s capital (John’s Cloning Page). There are mixed views about human cloning and whether it will be good for society or bad. The sources that I found express different opinions about human cloning. Each source gives a great deal of reasons to support their view about human ...