... transfer the little embryo to a woman's uterus to initiate a pregnancy. Since most of the heredity material of a cell is contained in its nucleus, the re-nucleated egg and the individual that is born from this process are genetically the same. This process could even be used to clone someone who is dead without his or her consent, a real threat to reproductive freedom, which has received very little attention. To clone or not to clone a human being is no longer considered just a simple question. The past success in cloning mice, cats, cows, and even sheep, makes it very clear that a serious decision is now at hand: whether we should tolerate or even allow genetic altering or the cloning of homosapiens: Although cloning has helped science, it is unethical. Clonaid, the company that claims to have produced the first human clone, said recently that a ...

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