Human Cloning

Thus Hall and Stillman saw nothing unethical about experimenting with them, and they got permission to do so from the university.
             When one of those single-celled embryos divided into two cells, the first step in development, the scientists quickly separated the cells, creating two different embryos with the same genetic information. In the process, though, the researchers had to strip away an outer coating, called zona pellucida, that is essential to development. Then came the trickiest part of the procedures. Over the years, Hall had been working with a gel derived from seaweed that could serve as a substitute for the zona pellucida. When Hall put the artificial coating around the cloned embryos they began to grow and develop. The experiment was a success (P. Dewitt: 1993).
             Once the news of this successful experiment was out flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bounding off satellites, it was the start of the fiercest scientific debate medical ethics the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A brave new world of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby forming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policy-makers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. Bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human embryo cloning. Scientists steeled themselves against a backlash they feared would obstruct a promising field of research and close off options to the infertile couples the original experiment had intended to serve (Dewitt, 1993).
             It is against this backdrop that the foregoing study is undertaken.
             Statement of the Problem:.
             Human cloning, should it be done is the main problem in this research. It specifically seek the answers to the following related questions:.