ves that at about three or four days old, before the cells have started to specialize to create a nervous system, is the window before human life actually begins (Ross 2). Still, Britain is the only country to completely legalize cloning for medical purposes and will probably be the only one to actually do so for many years to come. In the United States, political fear of the religious right is whats holding [stem cell research] back and it will continue to hold it back, stated Glenn McGee, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics (Ross 1). Already, California and Rhode Island have completely banned stem cell research and many states have similar legislation in the works, although a bill on a national ban of cloning was shot down in 1998. In addition, 19 European nations have signed anti-cloning treaties (Nash 1).What the world must realize is that cloning holds many additional benefits than the ones outlined above, it is truly a technology with so much hidden potential that it would be unethical not to continue research into it. However, we as a society must also realize that the basic idea of cloning is not a new one; the idea of giving synthetic life that wasnt given by nature. When scientists introduced the idea of early organ transplantation, many people feared for the future of human kind, but organ transplantation has now become a necessary and excepted part of medical practices. As long as humanity acts sensibly, we can avoid all of the fears that people have of cloning and realize its potential as not a scientific horror but as a scientific miracle....
