Newspaper headlines screamed it, everyone was talking about it-A SHEEP WAS CLONED! Scientists created an exact duplicate of a sheep from a body cell. For some time no one could duplicate the work done in the Scottish lab. Then a mouse was cloned, and now a number of mice clones have been produced.

In the sheep and mouse cloning, a body cell was removed and its nucleus placed into another animal's egg cell. Then, an electrical current was sent through the cell, and it started dividing.

A physicist in Chicago has announced that he is setting up a laboratory to do human cloning. If laws are passed against it, he says, he will move his lab to another country.

Anthony Luning was more than curious about cloning. Starting with one apartment building, he now owned enough land to make him the richest man in Charlotte, North Carolina. Being rich, however, doesn't keep tragedy from happening to you. One day his five-year-old daughter, Lucy, was crossing the street and was hit by a drunk driver. By the time the ambulance came, she had suffered serious brain damage. In the emergency room, doctors put her on a respirator, and her heart was beating normally. Mr. Luning was told, however, that she probably would never regain consciousness. He was devastated.

In Charlotte, a group of scientists were working on cloning a cow from the body cell of a cow that was a high milk producer. They used Mr. Luning's property for their herd, and he had been following their progress. As a businessman, he saw the potential for the process. Now, as a parent, he had another idea.

Dr. Irene Smith was the head scientist on the project. Mr. Luning called her several weeks after the accident. He told her he was willing to spend every cent he had to bring his daughter back. He wanted her to clone his daughter from one of her body cells. If the doctor in Chicago could do it, so could she.

1. What should Dr. Smith do?
2. Give three reasons she should not do this.
3. Give three reasons she should.
4. If Mr. Luning offers her not only money but future funding for her research, should this make a difference?
5. Dr. Smith would be the first to clone a human being, and she could have the most modern laboratory-everything that she wanted. Should this play a part in her decision?
6. Should scientists do everything they are capable of doing? Give four arguments for your answer.
7. Will there be a market for human cloning? Why or why not?