  I woke up this morning To my dog barking excessively. After letting her outside and feeding her Cheerios for breakfast, I flipped on FoxNews Channel and this scary-looking woman-thing was on my television set telling me that the her company ( urlLink Clonaid -- Not sure if the link works, my computer has a habit of not showing working links) helped produce the first cloned human baby. Oh, lovely . After listening to her talk about the baby, but produce no pictures, no happy mommy and daddy, not even a name...I started to wonder if she was for real. Then she launched into this whole spiel about how she believed she was created by scientists and that if her production was the good result of science, her gift of this cloning technology was good science and much better than the science that allows you to blow people up. That's when it was confirmed for me that she was kooky. She talked more about her urlLink Raelian philosophy (again, the link might work on your computer, mine's acting up) and how Rael influeneced her work than she did about the newborn baby. Heh. I'm not sure whether to believe this. After all, you're asking me to believe that you've successfully cloned a human being, that it was born on Thursday, but you don't have pictures. You don't have any charts or figures or test results or anything that resembles research leading up to this momentus event.
(And yes, even if it goes against every ideal possible that you hold dear, it would still be a momentous event...After all, it's not every day that you have a scientifically created cloned baby born. ) And then you tell me that another one is due in a week from now? Wait, let me guess...You won't have pictures, charts, figures or test results for that one either.
Heh.
I don't know. Dubious, at best. I'm sure the technology is out there; probably in its early or middle stages, but I'm sure its out there.
After all, we can clone human organs, is a full human clone that far off? However, as the correspondent commented on FoxNews, even Dolly's (the cloned sheep) creation and existance (along with all the research) wasn't completely explained or released to the public until she was six months old (and even then , they showed pictures/movies of her). While you can't really put a sheep and a human in the same category, when they're both scientifically cloned and the results of research, they're pretty much both in the same category.
Harsh? Maybe, but what I think is truth. I don't mind creating human organs (hearts, lungs, livers, etc) for transplantation -- After all, there is a shortage of donors out there, why not use the technology in a good way to allow sick people to get better and live a normal life instead of playing the horrible waiting game of, "Hey you might die soon if we don't find the right donor"? But one you cross into cloning a full human...That's where things get tricky. Anyway, something else I'm left to ponder...Who in their right minds would allow that scary woman-thing near them ?? If it was me, I'd run screaming into the night if she ever came near me... Heh. (MyWay news has a urlLink link to the story , complete with picture.
Enjoy! )        Something else to ponder that urlLink Nick brought up ...What kind of people want to clone themselves in order to have children when there are other, better alternatives? Didn't really see it from that aspect as I was too busy being horrified at the hideousness on my television screen that was spewing forth hot air. However, being that I am a big proponent of adoption, that's something I'd definitely ask the two "parents" -- There are so many babies and children out there who need good homes and loving parents, why didn't they consider adopting? Then again, if they are so full of themselves as to clone themselves in order to have children, then I guess I'm glad the didn't consider. Better for true parents to adopt than for them to fall into the wrong hands. 
