Over the past few decades, medical advances have made life better than ever before. People are living longer, their health is better and their quality of life is above any previous standard. Today, people can be cured of illnesses that used to mean death while at the same time practicing preventative medicine that will provide them with a longer life. Advances in the medical field have provided many benefits to human life but the question becomes, how much is too much? The ability to clone humans and human parts is just on the horizon. Steps have been taken to push it through the FDA regulations and the public is being told the ability is just around the corner. Cloning, while on the surface has many benefits, is something that should not be allowed to occur. While medical science has provided many positive contributions to society, the ability to clone is going over the line and should never be legislated to happen. .

             "Cloning, as a scientific technique, is not new. Genetically identical copies of whole organisms in horticulture (known as varieties) are commonplace. In addition, some forms of invertebrates (ie earth worms, and the like), can regenerate themselves quite readily. While vertebrates do not have this ability, the "cloning" of vertebrates does occur naturally through the formation and birth of identical twins with the chance separation of a single embryo into halves during early development.

             Indeed, the first case of an artificially occurring clone dates back to the 1960s where the transplantation of cell nuclei was successfully used to clone frogs J1 Although the frogs never reached adulthood, the technology was lauded as a tremendous breakthrough. .

             After a drought in cloning advances in the 1980s, the world's attention focused sharply on the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, when in 1997, a research team announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly, by modifying the technology developed decades earlier.