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... example, eliminate the demand for illegally obtained transplants such as in those cases when they are taken forcibly from abducted individuals. Therefore, I believe that therapeutic cloning can be justified due to its potential benefits for humanity in the means of creating transplants and treating incurable deceases, although nowadays cloning is widely regarded to be unethical. Historically cloning experiments pertains to cloning of animal embryos, such as mice experiments which date back to late 1970's, and cattle breeding in late 1980's. The experiments Lagunova 2 represented implantation of one or several clones, divided from one fertilized ovum, into the womb of a surrogate female (Robinson, "Embryo Cloning of Humans"). In recent years, besides the successful cloning of a lamb named Dolly in 1996 and other attempts to clone cattle, scientists from Texas A&M University successfully cloned a cat Cc (short for copy cat) - a later-born identical twin of a calicos ...