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For further explanation on how cloning is done, see Conceiving a Clone, Science Matters, and How Cloning Works.

Recent columns and editorials on cloning include:

Passions of the heart collide with reasons of the mind — Peter Gorner and Ronald Kotulak, The Chicago Tribune (Dec. 9, 2001)

The Weaknesses of Science for Profit — Harold Varmus, The New York Times (Dec. 4, 2001)

Ban cloning, not stem-cell research — James C. Greenwood, The Philadelphia Inquirer (Nov. 28, 2001)

Cloning's Embryonic Ethics — Christian Science Monitor (Nov. 27, 2001)

The cloning genie is out of the bottle — The Boston Herald (Nov. 27, 2001)

Don't mix science and religion — Joan Ryan, The San Francisco Chronicle (Nov. 27, 2001)

Cloning to save lives — The Boston Globe (Nov. 27, 2001)

Cloning Panic — The Washington Post (Nov. 27, 2001)

Science and ethics at odds? — The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Nov. 27, 2001)

Stem cells and cloning — The Chicago Tribune (Nov. 27, 2001)

Yahoo's full coverage has current news articles and opinion pieces on human cloning.

Christianity Today recommended against human cloning in a 1997 editorial, "Stop Cloning Around."

See our October cover story, "A Matter of Life and Death: Why shouldn't we use our embryos and genes to make our lives better? The world awaits a Christian answer."

Previous Christianity Today articles on cloning and human dignity include:

The New TyrannyBiotechnology threatens to turn humanity into raw material. (Oct. 5, 2001)

Gen-EtiquetteScientists may be mapping the genome, but it will be up to us to determine where the map will lead. (Oct. 4, 2001)

Manipulating the Linguistic CodeReligious language falling into the hands of scientists can be a fearful thing. (Oct. 4, 2001)

Times FiftyCan a clone be an individual? A short story. (Oct. 2, 2001)

The Genome DoctorThe director of the National Human Genome Research Institute answers questions about the morality of his work. (Oct. 1, 2001)

Wanna Buy a Bioethicist? (Editorial)Some corporations have discovered that bioethics makes good public relations. (Sept. 28, 2001)

Two CheersPresident Bush's stem-cell decision is better than the fatal cure many sought. (August 10, 2001)

House Backs Human Cloning BanScientists say they'll go ahead anyway. (August 27, 2001)

Embryos Split ProlifersBush decision pleases some, keeps door open for disputed research. (August 27, 2001)

House of Lords Legalizes Human Embryo CloningReligious leaders' protests go unheeded by lawmakers. (Feb. 2, 2001)

Britain Debates Cloning of Human EmbryosScientists want steady stream of stem cells for "therapeutic" purposes. (Nov. 22, 2000)

Tissue of Lies?Latest stem-cell research shows no urgent need to destroy human embryos for the cause of science. (Sept. 28, 2000)

Beyond the Impasse to What?Stem-cell research may not need human embryos after all. But why are we researching in the first place? (Aug. 18, 2000)

Thus Spoke SupermanTroubling language frames the stem-cell debate. (June 13, 2000)

New Stem-Cell Research Guidelines CriticizedNIH guidelines skirt ethical issues about embryo destruction, charge bioethicists. (Feb. 7, 2000)

Human Embryo Research Resisted (August 9, 1999)

Editorial: The Biotech Temptation (July 12, 1999)

Embryo Research Contested (May 24, 1999)

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January 7 2002, Vol. 46, No. 1