Cloning... A Point of View

The term clone evokes rather frightening thoughts by many. Images of armies of identical people lacking individuality remind many of Aldous Huxley's fiction of a genetically engineered world. Despite the general public fear of this fictional view of cloning, science has a purer purpose of clones. Cloning in one sense is modern science's attempt to improve the statistics of natural reproduction. Reproduction naturally is inefficient; however, with the medical technology now available, science is helping improve the odds of embryo survival. …