WILL WE FOLLOW THE SHEEP?

IT WILL BE UP TO SCIENCE TO DETERMINE IF HUMAN CLONING CAN BE DONE. IT IS UP TO THE REST OF US TO DETERMINE IF IT SHOULD BE

It's a busy morning in the cloning laboratory of the big-city hospital. As always, the list of people seeking the lab's services is a long one--and, as always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced all...

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