rtilized and is implanted into a female just as it is done in vitro fertilization. After nine months the baby is born like any other baby. What this means, in an extremely simplified form, is that a cloned baby only differs from other babies in the fact that they share the exact DNA with another person, just like identical twins, only the clone is much younger than its twin. Cloning is a subject that many people have mixed emotions about. The mass media has explored the concept of cloning in movies such as Jurassic Park. In this movie, the cloning of dinosaurs happens with the help of a crazy scientist who takes the DNA of a dinosaur out of a piece of hard sap from a tree and makes multiple copies of an organism. Stories like these and others stir the imagination and lead to misconceptions of the aspect of cloning as a whole. Cloning dinosaurs, as portrayed in the movies, is technically impossible now.I n addition to the media, there are many religious concerns as well as fears that society has with the idea of cloning. One of which is the thought of the 10,000 Hitlers scenario. People that accept this idea believe that evil dictators could someday use cloning to create an army using clones of them selves. This would then lead to a take over of the world (Hume 16). Glenn McGee states in his book The Human Cloning Debate that, cloning would be physiologically unsafe for any clone, and second that cloning would deprive a child of its identity or in other ways rob it of freedom(4). Many people feel that cloning is too risky and the procedure should be banned because too many lives could be lost. Others worry that if someone were cloned they would be in harms way, either directly or indirectly and therefore it should not take place (McGee 3). The second part of McGees statement against cloning is that it will cause a lack of identity for the clone and might lead to a cheapening of life. He feels that if there were two people ...
