Here is a sampling of what readers think of human cloning and the controversy it has raised. (See Notes from the Editors.)

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What is wrong with human cloning? There are so many benefits gained from human cloning and at what cost? If you say that it is wrong, you declare nature to be wrong for human clones walk among us today. All identical twins are clones. Why try to stop something so beneficial to all of us and so much part of nature as identical twins?

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It stinks! there is a great deal more that the profession can do that it is not to help solve [the infertility] problem in those that do not have blocked tubes. They need to look into the fact that they have not recognized the presence of reverse T3 and the use of triiodothyronine in those that are producing too much.

Editor's note: Thyroid disorders can cause infertility.

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If it is true what they say, that God created us in his image, then how should we not love creating - and how could it be wrong for us to do so, as carefully and as ethically as we can, on whatever scale we're capable of? Doctors save lives for this very reason. It is my hope that Dr. Seed will follow through with his plans and that any result will send us all one step closer to God's plan for us. Only the kindergarten ethics of the past will be reason to hold this back.

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...What is so objectionable about the idea of cloning somebody? I think it all boils down to ideas about people being not of this planet as other organisms are, but are godly constructs apart from mere animal or plant life, not to be tampered with. (Which pretty much is an indictment of the entire medical and scientific establishment.) Another reaction to a basically mundane piece of information could be seen when astronomers announced the discovery of planet(s) orbiting another star. It was as if people had just discovered the Earth was round. The stories should have stressed the development of higher resolution imaging techniques, but instead seemed to fixate on the apparently mind-blowing idea of there being planets circling other stars. I guess people in general don't read science fiction. Which brings us back to cloning. Richard Seed, if he is successful at efforts on his part to be the first person to clone a human, will be hailed as a pioneer. As it should be. One day, this procedure will be as unremarkable as other reproductive procedures are today. Cloning will be performed in cases in which the prospective parent(s) have no other choice, if they are to raise children of their own blood.

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