“It is possible to clone mammals. Is it morally acceptable to clone a human being? Defend your answer against those who would not agree with you.”

In cloning for medical-research purposes the development of the embryo is halted as soon as a cluster of stem cells develops. The stem cells are then harvested for research purposes. Due to the fact that no infant is born (in fact the embryo never even gets past the blastocyst stage), it is argued that this type of cloning has nothing to do with human cloning. (Hatch Backs Limited Cloning, 2002). For this reason this paper shall take the statement to clone a human being as meaning cloning that results in a fully formed human and not on the cloning of embryos for the purposes of research….(short extract)