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Perfect Cloning? Ever since the first child was successfully conceived and born in 1978 through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), the question on everybody's mind has been 'Just how far can we stretch the right to create and destroy human life?' In the 24 years since IVF's first success, a million IVF babies have been born worldwide and the technique has become an accepted therapy. Now, more than ever with progress in assisting in conception, there has been a great interest in cloning humans. Humans have been cloned, naturally of course. I am referring to identical twins. Outside of that, no human has ever been artificially cloned. One attempt at splitting an embryo in 1993 came very close but was not successful. Both of the two ways of cloning; splitting an embryo and implanting genetic cells into an egg, are hard to do, expensive and dangerous, but offer endless possibilities in medical developments. Although many scientists...

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