A Miracle for Mankind

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allowed to produce. Therefore, to reduce the risk in bearing a imperfect child, people could clone embryos and change the genetic structure. Certainly, the child would be disease free. In the book Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead, Gina Kolata questioned people about how they felt about cloning and its purposes. The President of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Bentley Glass, commented on the fact of cloning for a perfect child. ?According to Glass, the looming problem for humanity was a population explosion that would force people to sharply limit their family sizes. And so, he said, when parents will be able to have no more than two children, they will want to be sure that those children are perfect. Science, he said, will come to the rescue? (Kolata Clone 75). Ideas like this would not come for a while because there are many questions to answer. ?There is no immediate crisis, most of the witnesses said, since the methods used in Scotland to clone an adult sheep would need to be made more efficient be...