On July 9, 2001, Physician's Weekly printed an article regarding the outlaw of reproductive cloning on humans and whether or not congress should ban it. U.S. Rep. James Greenwood took a strong stance opposing reproductive cloning while Mark D. Eibert chose to explain why reproductive cloning should be legal, primarily, if not, solely to the 12 million Americans affected by a disease known as infertility.
Representative Greenwood argued that this practice would not be safe or ethical for someone to consider. Greenwood stated that Dolly the sheep had nearly 300 miscarriages, deformities, and birth defects, which might be acceptable for sheep but not for humans. In his mind a caring society cannot condone that level of human suffering, especially when given the fact that primate studies have not been conducted or cloned animals studied over their lifetimes. He later states that cloning would also be unethical and that no one has the right to create a human as a replica.......
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