Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) __equates________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __evaluated________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) __context________, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.
Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) ___equation_______, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.
Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) ___evaluate_______ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.
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