Would you like to be cloned? This is the question that is being raised in current politics. Human cloning has become a rather controversial topic as of late, and there are several reasons why. 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 …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…questions are about genetic engineering, which is a different issue than cloning. Cloning is a crude method of trait selection: It simply takes a pre-existing, unengineered genetic combination of traits and replicates it. I do not wish to dismiss the ethical concerns people have raised regarding the broad range of assisted reproductive technologies. But we should acknowledge that those concerns will not be resolved by any determination we make regarding the specific acceptability of cloning.