The baby is going to be checked by an independent expert to verify if she is really cloned. Suppossedly the Clonaid group, is going to clone more than 20 babies soon. Yes muchosiluro we are definitely near the end!! Human Cloning is a very bad idea. And there should be more regulations when it comes to doing it, because i think they got it too easy.

That book was required reading, but only for my AP class...the regular classes didn't have to read it. I saw the entire book as a warning as to what our society is leaning towards. I actually suggested the book to somebody who believed that having sex at an early age is good in "A Rant about Virginity."

Dante- I actually just read in Discover magazine that they found the gene that is responsible for the growth problems. I think it was Oct6 or something. For some yet to be discovered reason, Oct6 is turned off in clones, but not in natural conceptions.

And would everyone PLEASE read Brave New World at some point. More and more, i think that book should be required reading for every student.

When cloning often the developing embryos (fertilized eggs) will die. Like an involuntary miscarriage. It took a lot of attempts to make Dolly (the sheep).

When it comes to genetic science, cloning is not really a moral issue so much as DNA alteration of humans, genetically "perfected" animals and produce, and the possibillity of a GATTACA-like world.

Cloning is basically forcing a twin, that's all. It's not like a clone has the same personality or soul as the "origional" - it's going to be as different as twins are from each other.

Clonging in and of itself is not evil, but what about cloning for "spare parts?" I'm still undecided on this one: Do all the medical benefits make up for a single sacrificed child?

Are you thinking of stem cell research?

Joey- Clones are created by taking an unfertilized egg, removing the DNA inside, and then inserting the DNA to be cloned. This essentially fertilizes the egg and it grows "normally". The actual cloning occurs before conception.

Isn't it true that embroys are destroyed in order to effectively clone someone or something?

If so, then to me that's up there with abortion and should be stopped immediately.

A few months ago, I read a story in an Austrialian newspaper about a clinic somwhere ( I think NZ?) that had a few dozen cloned pregnancies that were planned to go full term. Since then I've heard reports of the same thing from everywhere, Korea, Austrailia, Italy, Indonesia...

This is either a complex and developing urban legend, a real fact, or both.

I just find it difficult to beleive that someone, somewhere isn't trying to raise clones right now.

I don't know if it's even valid: Dr. Antinori might just be doing it for the publicity. Since we have no information on the families, we can't verify his story.

I would hate to see what would happen to human clones. If you followed the stories of animal clones they later had serious medical complications, and were not as many had first thought, perfectly heathy.

I really hope that's not true. Cloning will be the downfall of man-kind. If so, we're not too far from the end.