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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

Human cloning is coming.

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.