"It's a busy morning in the cloning laboratory of a large city hospital. As always, the list of patients requiring the laboratory's services is long and, as always, is a Here are parents from the Midwest who have come specifically to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently discovered to have leukemia so aggressive that only a bone marrow transplant can . save her. 67) This is just one of the many scenarios that people are imagining after the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, that is, manipulating an animal's cell so that it grows into an exact duplicate of that animal the first time it has been possible to clone a mammal; however, it is the first time that a mammal has been cloned from an adult and not an embryonic cell (Nash). The new cloning technique raises many questions, the most controversial of which concerns the possibility of human cloning. Scientists say that, in theory, the process used to clone Dolly would also work for humans (Herbert). However, human cloning should be regulated for ethical, moral and religious reasons. On March 4, 1997, President Clinton temporarily banned federally funded human cloning research in the United States and gave the National Bioethics Advisory Commission 90 days to report on the matter. whether human cloning should be banned or regulated ("Clinton Bans..."). In June, the Advisory Commission recommended that Congress impose a five-year ban on human cloning (Rosenblatt). President Clinton……middle of paper……n. "The world after cloning". US News & World Report. March 10, 1997. pp. 59-63.Kluger, Jeffrey. “Will we follow the sheep?” Time . March 10, 1997, pp. 67-72. Nash, Madeline. "The age of cloning." Time . March 10, 1997, pp. 62-65. Rosenblatt, Robert A. "Commission Seeks Ban on Human Cloning." [Online]. Available: http://www.seattletimes.com/sbin/iarecord?NS-search-set=/34750/aaaa003ww75055e&NS-doc-offset=9& Search: Internet Cloning. May 18, 1997.Woodward, Kenneth L. "Today the sheep...". Newsweek "Clinton Bans Federal Funding for Human Cloning." [Online]. Available: http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/special/clone/clone.10.html Search: Internet Cloning. March 4, 1997. "Clinton Supports Proposal to Ban Human Cloning." [Online]. Available: http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/special/clone/clone.24.html Search: Internet Cloning. June 9, 1997.