Article: ANALYSIS: THE BUSINESS OF PLAYING GOD


United Press International
01-29-2001
Analysis: The business of playing God

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Recent scientific developments suggest that human cloning is now technically possible. Britain has just legalized it for very restricted research purposes, while in the United States a number of privately funded attempts to clone a human being are underway.

Clearly, there are likely to be a number of difficulties and false starts before human cloning is feasible on a consistent basis. Nevertheless, it seems likely that within five years this will be possible. The ethical and social issues involved have been widely debated, but few seem to have considered the business opportunities that ...

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