What does the scientist think of human cloning? [br] [originaltext]I: Dr. Wilmo

I: Dr. Wilmot, I heard that your lab had successfully cloned some lambs. Do you think that cloning human beings is also possible?
S: I don’t know. It is quite likely that it is possible, yes. But what I’ve said before is that people would find it morally unacceptable to think of doing that. We can’t think of a reason to do it. If there was a reason to copy a human being, we would do it, but there isn’t.
I: Is the idea of cloning a dead person totally fanciful?
S: Yes. This is unthinkable at least for now.
I: Still, even if you can’t clone the dead and you see no reason to clone the living, others might find reasons for human cloning, and they may not have the same standard of principle as you.
S: That does worry me, both in principle and in detail, It worries me in detail because the successes we have at present are of such low efficiency that it would really be horrible to think of doing that with people, t would feel desperately sorry for the women and the children that we’ve involved.
I: Why? Because the clone could turn out to be some kind of monster?
S: It’s possible. Perhaps you don’t know that in the first experiment that we reported, five lambs were born alive and three of them died quickly. There was nothing monstrous, they just simply died. That in itself is very distressing if you think of a mother who carries a child and it dies within a few days of birth.