On February 24, 1997, the birth of a cloned sheep shocked the public of the United States . The prospects of human cloning and the uses of cloning technology in genetic engineering quickly became a highly debated issue. The sides to the debate were easily drawn. Many felt that the use of cloning would be morally wrong and would be yet another step in the road of mankind’s ultimate destruction. Others debated that, to fear something because …showed first 75 words of 2175 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2175 total…Human cloning would bring grave risks of abuses to human dignity and exploitation by unscrupulous people. Although cloning research does present some dangers, it also has many potential benefits and should not be banned simply out of fear of its possible misuses. In such a situation of ongoing debate, people should be very slow to restrict the uses of cloning, because they are so intimately involved with personal decisions about family, reproduction, and curing diseases.