To: letters@guardian.co.uk
Re: Need for DNA database against human cloning
Date: Monday 19 January 2004

Dear Editors,

In response to "Scientists pour scorn on doctor's human clone boast" in yesterday's Sunday Observer.

Sooner or later human cloning is going to succeed and just as now we already have thousands of individuals who were conceived in vitro living among us, at some time in the future they will joined by human clones.

The only way to protect oneself and society from these vain and unnatural forms of creation is through a DNA database - which we need anyway as a reliable means of establishing personal identity - as the basis of an individual's "pedigree".

There is no question of imposing the necessary measures by law; neither is there any need. It is up to those of us who want it to establish such a transparent culture and society for ourselves, along with a secure databank for our DNA profiles and pedigrees.

The sooner we make a start the better, before we or our children find themselves married to one of man's vain creations.