If you could, would you clone a human?

I'm just asking. If you could, would you clone a human? Do you know a human so perfect that cloning him or her seems to be a real option?

There are the reports out today that a doctor claims he has cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of women. According to my reading, a British newspaper has reported, that apparently none of the embryos survived long enough to achieve a viable pregnancy.

I think it's just possible those 11 embryos don't want to be cloned. Something there is that doesn't love a human cloned. I'm sure, in time, it'll happen. But why? And who is worthy of cloning?

According to the story, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos told the newspaper "he carried out the work at a secret laboratory in an undisclosed country, and although the attempt failed this time, he said it will be possible to have a cloned human baby within the next few years if efforts are intensified." Efforts are intensified. Hmmm. It's still a criminal offense in many countries, including Britain, to transfer cloned embryos into the human womb.

Do we really want a human cloned? Let's just look what happened to Dolly, the sheep that was cloned and born on July 5, 1996, in Edinburgh. She was euthanized, read "put out of her misery," six years later, in February 2003.

She lived, according to what I read, about half as long as most sheeps and suffered the consequenses of progressive lung disease, arthritis and more. Those who brought her to life had to take that life from her. It is quite possible she was old before her time, born only to die.

But then aren't we all. From the moment we arrive, we grow, change and, if we're lucky, mature, and then the process reverts and we go out the way we came in: with poor eyesight, very little hair, and requiring others to care for us. And that's if we're lucky. It appears likely that cloning a human will only speed up that natural process of aging.

"We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world," the doctor said. "What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one," he continued.

If you could, just because you can, would you clone a human?

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