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Human Cloning: Scientists
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This week, Chicago scientist Richard Seed announced that he will proceed with human cloning. Politicians, including President Clinton, are outraged. But doctors and researchers of human infertility are concerned that the debate may stifle their own research and techniques, which fall far short of human cloning. Stephen Smith of Minnesota Public Radio reports.
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[H]e points out in his article that the subject of human cloning is no longer so taboo. Noted scientists, philosophers and authors, including biologist Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, have signed the "Declaration in Defense of Cloning and the Integrity of Scientific Research," a document supporting reasoned argument on cloning. And Rabbi Michael Broyde of Emery University in Atlanta wrote an article in the journal Jewish Law about the possible place of cloning in Jewish tradition.
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The possibility of human cloning, raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly" (Nature 385, 810-13, 1997), aroused worldwide interest and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications. The feat, cited by Science magazine as the breakthrough of 1997... generated uncertainty over the meaning of "cloning" --an umbrella term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes for duplicating biological material.
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Should Congress limit or ban human cloning? That's the question of the hour, as Scientists, Lawyers, Philosophers, and sundry Religious and Moral Leaders argue on behalf of Childless Couples, Ill Individuals, Religious Truths and the March of Science. The explosion in biological technologies that has reached its acme in cloning raises a set of unsettling questions:
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Even before her news conference, other scientists expressed doubt that her group could clone a human. Boisselier said the baby, dubbed "Eve" by the scientists, is a clone of a 31-year-old American woman. The woman donated the DNA for the cloning process, had the resulting embryo implanted and then gestated the baby, Boisselier said. If confirmed, that would make the child an exact genetic duplicate of her mother.
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Some in the scientific community, though, say that human cloning is unethical. Cloning is still a primitive technology even in animals, and it raises complex moral questions about manipulating human life in the laboratory. But that hasn't stopped a number of renegade scientists from announcing their intention to try it.
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