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Volume 6, No 4 June 2003

Human reproductive cloning: the time is near 

PM Zavos
Director, Andrology Institute of America, Associate Director, Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine & IVF, P O Box 23777, Lexington, KY 40523, USA. Correspondence: email: zavos@zavos.org

Reproductive cloning today continues to preoccupy the general public and its critics in a very controversial and often misleading manner. We, in the field of scientific and reproductive medicine, realize that our responsibilities are quite numerous and extremely delicate. It was not too long ago that we witnessed the atmosphere at the National Academy of Sciences hearing in Washington, D.C. (August 2001) on the topic of human reproductive cloning, although not entirely militated against by its concomitant scholarly document. As one of the invited participants, it was evident from the behaviour of the NAS members and their invited guests that this hearing was scheduled not to discuss the topic of human reproductive cloning, but rather to condemn it.

Reproductive BioMedicine Online 2003 Vol. 6, No. 4, 397–398

Keywords: Human cloning