We Should Not Fear Cloning With the success of animal cloning, many people have reacted with frightening and usually misinformed ideas about what cloning is and what researchers hope to achieve through it . Many would like to ban all forms of cloning without even looking at the positive aspects that cloning can offer us in the future and with continuous research. Like any new technology, people are afraid at first, but this is no excuse to abandon research that could one day save millions of people through cloned organs or provide an alternative, safe means of reproduction for infertile couples. This fear was further reinforced by the media sensationalizing the progress and throwing "Brave New World" into every headline. Even the uninformed look to popular culture rather than facts to argue against cloning. Jurassic Park, Frankenstein and The Island of Doctor Moreau have shown the majority of Americans the dark and evil side of cloning, which is not the purpose of scientists and is currently not technologically possible. It is obvious that we need to act now and establish guidelines, both ethical and legislative, but we should not completely ban cloning without further research. The image of an extraordinarily wealthy person cloning the perfect army of soldiers or raising a nation of subjugated clones has been fed to the people through newspapers and nightly news. What most people don't realize is that clones are not grown in a petri dish. Clones still have to be protected in the womb for nine months and be born, just like any other person. It would be much easier for an ultra-rich man to create an army or a group of slaves “the old fashioned way”. As a society and as human beings, we should be concerned about the slavery and despotism that we already... middle of paper... fear." CNNfn. 1997. http://www.cnnfn.com/ hotstories/bizbuzz/wires/9702 /25/cloning_wg/ (February 28, 1997) Glassman, James. "Should We Fear Dolly?" 28 February 1997) Darrow, Siobhan "Should we clone around?" 1997. (28 February 1997) Scheinin, Richard man-as-creator." Mercury Center. 1997. (28 February 1997) Coghlan, Andy. "One small step for a sheep." New Scientist. 1997. http://www.newscientist.com/clone/smallstep. html (28 February 1997) Concar, David. "The Point of No Return" 1997. http://www.newscientist.com/clone/comment.html (). February 28, 1997) Coghlan, David and Andy Concar. "How the clock of life has been turned back".. 1997)