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The Ethics of Human Cloning For the purposes of this essay, "human cloning" will refer to human reproductive cloning involving somatic cell nuclear transfer (explained later), rather than therapeutic human cloning, which involves the use of pluripotent stem cells. Advances in cloning research have used (differentiated) somatic cells. Essentially any cell within body could be used to make a clone, be it a neuron or a hepatocyte or myocyte, it still contains all the genetic material and instruction to create a new identical organism. It was the birth of "Dolly" the sheep in 1997 that highlighted the possibility that the cloning of human beings is possible. The process of somatic cell nuclear transfer involves obtaining a donor oocyte and removing its genetic contents, to produce an "enucleated" cell. Cloning techniques involve obtaining a somatic cell from the person to be cloned and fusing it with the enucleated cell via electrofusion, which...

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