In the summer of 1955, a young man named Emmett Till took a trip to Mississippi to visit relatives. His mother warned him of hostility toward blacks in the South, but he failed to heed her warning. In August of that year, Emmett was beaten and shot to death by two white men, and then his body was thrown in a river. His crime was speaking to a white woman in the grocery store.

What started as a trickle has now become a flood. The boundaries between medicine and science fiction are quickly disappearing and the "attack of the clones" is literally beginning. America, as the world leader in scientific thought, now has no choice but to address the potential consequences of human cloning, something that in the past had only existed in the realm of Star Wars movies.