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Human Cloning: Is making people wrong?The ultimate bit of genetic engineering would be cloning people  

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"If tomorrow someone could prove that you were a clone, would you think your life was worth less, that your loves and experiences were devalued? "You would be the same person you always were. Nothing would be different simply because you were born from a 'previously experienced genome'". Human Cloning: Is making people wrong? The ultimate bit of genetic engineering would be cloning people - just as scientists have already done with Dolly the sheep, and CC the cloned cat - so that babies would be born without having two biological parents. Cloning is a sexual reproduction and it produces individuals who are genetically identical to someone who already exists. It's done by removing the DNA from the nucleus of an egg cell taken from the mother and then replacing this genetic material with the DNA taken from one of the father's cells - perhaps a skin cell. Creating complete people like this would lead to...

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