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Nowadays, cloning is a topic which causes intense debates among scientists and ordinary members of the society. Obviously, cloning isn’t a term from the fiction novel any more but a reality we have to meet and react accordingly. It seems to me that we should stop using cloning any longer because we may suffer emotional risks from cloning. Suppose a child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, her grandmother is her mother, what kind of pressures will he or she feel, knowing they were made as a direct replacement for another? It is a human experiment doomed to failure because the child will not be identical in every way, despite the hopes of the parents. It will place great pressures on the emotional development of the child. Another element that plays a vital role in against cloning is that it threatens human being’s health. If scientists could transfer human genes into animals and vice-versa, diseases may be transmitted from animals to humans. It can create a worldwide catastrophe that no one would be able to stop. There’s a news poll out tonight on another major controversy: human cloning. When asked whether scientists should be able to clone human, 85% said no, 11% said yes. Congress is working on legislation that would ban human cloning. It heard today on one scientist who intends to clone humans. From his 2)cramped laboratory in Lexington, Kentucky, doctor Panos Zavos claims he is on the 3)brink of cloning a human being. Zavos, a 4)fertility specialist who argues that cloning is appropriate for 5)infertile couples, says he will 6)implant cloned 7)embryos in 12 women this year. Dr. Zavos: The plan is that we are going to do the first four couples sometime this summer. Reporter: Where do you plan to do this? Dr. Zavos: Somewhere in this world. That makes Zavos one of the few scientists in the world who thinks human cloning is safe. Animals like cows and pigs are cloned every day, but the technology is not complete, and there are high rates of 8)defor