Dolly, take a hike.

Before this beautiful thing called graduation ... okay in four days ... I was in Research paper. Though I must admit I hated every second of that class, I learned a lot about writing papers and learned quite a bit from other people's papers in the class.
One of the topics chosen by my fellow classmate, Dalton, was cloning; he proceeded to explain the history, explanation, and opinion of cloning. To be completely honest, I had never thought much about cloning before; it didn't really concern me and I wasn't worried about it catching up to my lifetime.

Boy, was I wrong.

He said that scientists plan on human cloning within two years ... I will be at the end of my sophomore year in college and there could be TWO of me walking around this planet. There's one scientist that plans on cloning 200,000 human clones a year ... in two years. That is a ridiculous amount. If I remember correctly, China has enforced some sort of rule on how many children they are permitted to have because of overpopulation. Now how can we argue that human cloning is not going to overpopulate this already people- and toxin-polluted world?
He made some great points such as cloning would benefit those who have uncurable diseases to specific body parts, where they could reproduce an identical body part to be regrown at an accelerated rate and then transplanted into the body of the person in need. This arguement, I can agree with. It's basically stem cell reproduction. But why do we need two of every person on this planet? I don't believe that is necessary at all. Scientists are so excited to begin human cloning, but why, because it's a technological milestone for knowledge and the history of science? That may be great but if put into the wrong hands, for example, Hitler, we would all be doomed. A mass army of replicas of ourselves? How would it feel to kill yourself, er ... wait, your clone?

Another point Dalton argued was that if a stillborn birth occurred, the parents would have the option of creating a living, human clone of the deceased child. Correct me if I'm wrong, but would that be playing God, creating an exact, identical human replica of one's self because the other died? It's creating life, something God did, something only God has the power of doing.

One thing I do agree with is the cloning of a woman's womb so that a premature baby can be reinserted into the womb and nurtured until it is ready to be birthed ... again.

It's wrong; it's morally irresponsible, opens up too many windows and doors for diaster, and though it may be a huge step for science, it's one that can be tainted and toyed with for the wrong reasons.
Human cloning is a no no. So let's just leave it to Dolly and the cows, we'll stick to reproductions of our pets for now.