Are there going to be lots of mistakes — meaning deformed children who are basically science experiments?
Ian Wilmut, who was responsible for Dolly the sheep, has said that one quarter of his sheep have had growth defects, some of which caused their death shortly after birth, and that it’s totally irresponsible to try that with humans. Also, the Grenada Corp., which is in Texas, was cloning cows from embryonic cells and they found that 18 to 20 percent died after birth. Do you think that there is some place in the world where they are getting close? I think it’s being tried elsewhere. I find that in addition to physicians wanting to help infertile couples, there is an awesome power with being able to create life and that is very appealing and dramatic to people, even beyond the money. Some scientists in South Korea announced that they had cloned a human embryo but didn’t allow it go any further. While a number of countries have signed on to an international ban, South Korea hasn’t and the United States hasn’t either. If a person is cloned, would he or she have the same psychological compon
