Getting to the heart of cloning dilemma

CLONING is obviously a big issue with the readers of some US newspapers

CLONING is obviously a big issue with the readers of some US newspapers. They came up with some very intriguing questions which should be considered by President Bill Clinton's special commission to study the moral and practical effects of cloning. Among the more interesting were:

. Can you clone Alan Greenspan, or does it have to be LIVING tissue?

. If you cloned Henry IV, would he be Henry V or Henry IV jnr or, wait, Henry IV part II?

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