To Clone or Not to Clone - Therein Lies the Question

Soon, you will be able to clone yourself, manyto how cloning works and the methods used to
religious folks maybe appalled by this, but I wouldn'tcreate this future destiny and advances in science
be if I were you, it is a good thing and the scienceand medicine.
available from such things will increase life expectancyIndeed cloning has been in the news quite a bit lately
and help us stay young and fulfilled, in a youth likein fact an article in USA Today 11-12-2007: Ban human
fashion for 100s of years.clones or expect them soon, U.N. says;
Before passing judgment or accepting the party-lineFailure to outlaw reproductive cloning means it is just
with your decision of whether cloning is good or bada matter of time until cloned individuals share the
- may I be so bold as to recommend a book to youplanet," said Brendan Tobin, a human rights lawyer
that explains what cloning is and what the potential is,who co-authored the report.
perhaps you might dump your perception for nowAnd so what if they do, what if human scientists
and consider all this? The book is:become their own god to a very limited degree and
"In His Image - The Cloning of Man" by David Rorvikstart cloning their own? Clones are people too, they
- 1978.will be humans, so what is the problem? Please think
The first part of this book dives deep into thehard on this, and quoting scripture, well that is simply
morality issues of cloning, the religious barriers ofnot a viable reason to prevent cloning, you are going
society and the reality of what will soon be possible.to have to do better than that.
Part II of this book describes the exact methods as