''In February 1997, the announcement of the birth of a sheep named Dolly - the world's first cloned mammal - provoked a firestorm of controversy. Could the same technique be used to make genetic copies of humans? Would the coming millennium see the realization of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' - a fictional dystopia in which batches of identical human embryos are grown in state-run 'hatcheries'?
In December 1997, an eccentric physicist-turned-gene doctor named Richard Seed announced on national radio that he intended to open a human cloning clinic in the Chicago area. ''Clones are going to be fun,'' he later blithely commented to an audience at a Chicago law school symposium on reproduction. ''I can't wait to make two or three of my own self.''
(From ''Cloning the Buddha - The Moral Impact of Biotechnology'' by Richard Heinberg)
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