Send in the clones ... Don't bother, they're here

The creation of a cloned sheep from mammary tissue has raised major social concern, and much talk about major ethical issues occasioned by this technology. it is necessary to separate genuine from spurious ethical issues here, a task made more difficult than need be by the research community's failure to initiate ethical discussion and explanation of new technology as well as by fear reactions in society. As in genetic engineering of animals, issues about cloning fall into three categories - suggestions that the technology is inherently wrong, risk emerging from the technology and harm to the creature engendered. The issues regarding the cloning of humans can be analyzed using the same categories.