It is the year 2010. As you pick up your daily issue of The New York Times, you begin to read some of the articles on the front page. The top story of the paper reads, "Germany Wins All Gold Medals at the Olympic Games: Is Cloning in Competitive Events Fair?" Other interesting articles reported on the front page include: "Rock Star and Lover's Nuclear Transplanted Child is Born" and "Former President George Bush's Cloned Heart Transplant A Success." All of these articles on the front page show how much cloning has become a more apparent in our lives. This manipulation of the human body has now become more than an experiment. Its results are shown to be successful, resulting in people ...view middle of the document...
Newspaper articles that "stretch" the truth have caught the eyes of readers. Its negative comments on cloning have encouraged many to disagree with the concept of "playing God" and creating a manmade human. Cloning also interferes with many religious points of view as well as the science on the issue itself. Finally, cloning has and will affect society along with what it is to be human. For decades, cloning has been a novelty of science from fiction movies, but with the recent development in biotechnology and the arrival of Dolly, the possibility of cloning a human being has never came so close to reality.In the past decade, we have been audience to an onslaught of moral and ethical debates about cloning and other advances in reproductive technology. Major advances in cloning became apparent in 1997. On February 11, 1997, President Bill Clinton brought a bill before the U.S. Senate. His bill was a request that would criminalize human cloning. However, this was only a bill that would ban human cloning at a federal level. The bill was dropped and no further action has been known to happen.A few days later, Dr. Ian Wilmut amazed the world. On February 23, 1997, Dolly (a seven-month old sheep) was introduced to the media. Dolly had been cloned from an adult sheep. The once thought impossible experiment gave hope to many scientists trying to master cloning. In March, President Clinton reacted to "Dolly," by placing a widespread ban on the federal funding of human cloning in the U.S. Research continued in other countries regarding cloning.In 1998, advances in cloning were more apparent to the world. Cloning was now an everyday topic in local and world newspapers. Scientists everywhere were trying to be the first to announce the cloning of a human. Researchers in Korea were the first to announce that they had successfully cloned a human at the infertility clinic at Klyeonghee University. However they were wrong. In reality, the experiment was not finished because of ethical and religion issues. The embryo was then immediately destroyed.Meanwhile, the world was curious on what happened to the cloned sheep. Publicity on the ongoing experiments left Dolly in the dark. Finally, it was announced that on April 1, 1999, "Dolly" gave birth to three lambs. According to the institute, all three lambs are doing well. However, later in April, researches discovered that Dolly's cells were six years older than actually thought. It was apparent to the researches that cells have an internal mechanism, which keeps track of the actual age. This was an upset to researches in the fact that Dolly may not live full-life expectancy. Obviously there were many kinks that needed to be worked out when it came to the development of cloning.In March of 2000, America was told of the first world's cloned pigs. Five piglets were born on March 5, 2000. These piglets were cloned for the purpose of organ transplants according to iwon.com. Perhaps this advancement will help humans w...
