al. 1). "Experiments on human cloning are probably taking place somewhere right now. Though U.S. law precludes federal money from being spent on such research, and four states have outlawed cloning for reproductive purposes, the field remains wide open to privately funded efforts" ("Why Not Clone Humans" 5). Even though cloning a human is unpredictable, there is no harm in just giving it a try.
There are many positive and negative effects and risks of cloning or not cloning a human.
"If introduced, human cloning would have a variety of possible, and perhaps controversial, uses. A family might attempt to replace a terminally ill child or loved one with a genetic copy, or an otherwise infertile woman might clone herself or another individual through nuclear transfer. Facilitating genetic alteration could be another principal use. Genes, such as those conferring disease resistance, could be inserted into a human cell structure with the resulting transgenic cells employed as donors for nuclear transfer" (Lee 3).
Cloning could be another use and hope for replacing lost ones, or infertile couples who wish to raise a family. If no one ever takes a chance at human cloning, we won't get any progress, and vice-versa. If we perfect and succeed in doing, then we move forward in evolution, whereas without, we remain stationary (Boyce 43). "While undoubtedly fascinating, few people would perceive identical twins to be the least bit sinister. And yet identical twins are in fact natural clones, formed from the same egg and sharing the same genotype. If natural clones are not to be feared, why should we fear deliberate ones" (Colvin 39)? Theoretically, Ian Wilmut says, there is no reason his techniques of cloning Dolly couldn't someday be used to clone people. Think about the possibilities: a whole team of Michael Jordans, a scientific panel of Albert Einsteins, a movie starring and co-starring Brad Pitt (Stiefel 11).