The concept of having someone similar to you, both physically and somewhat emotionally, is mind blowing. ... The advancements in testing for genetic diseases could spark cures for diseases such as cancer, Tay-sachs, and leukemia. Using cloning technology to ensure the sex of a baby could prevent Tay-sachs disease, because it is a sex related disease. ... However, this is obviously not so, the religious diversity in America alone is too great to justify one sector or religion determining what is lawful or moral. ... In a free society, you cannot force another human being to give up one of their...

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However, with the help of cloning, scientists are beginning to learn how to cure horrible diseases such as cancer and Parkinson disease. ... But, many religions also say that if you see someone is suffering then it is important to help that person. Therefore, if science can save peoples lives by cloning their organs, what is wrong with it? ... At that point, the person is using the cloned body that is actually a human, as an object that can change him back to what he once was. ... It can cure cancer, Parkinson disease and can be helpful in creating a long and healthy life. ...

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How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? ... It is you who has to decide your view on this issue, and try to do something about it. ... Its purpose is simply a way to try to extend human life, which is what medical science has been doing since man's beginning. ... It is now up for you to decide. ...

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Assignment When discussing the question, "To what extent is human cloning playing God?... What would human cloning involve, and how could you take sperm out of the reproductive ­equation? ... First, you have to find a donor, and second, there's no guarantee that your body will accept the new organ." ... Dean Ornish's program for Reversing heart disease. ... Conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart failure, degenerative joint disease, and other problems may be made curable if human cloning and its technology are not banned. ...

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This idea is overwhelming because if you wanted to clone a loved one that you lost it would be like your child. This child would have no memories of you and won"t even know who you are. ... Cloning could also help researchers cure any number of diseases. ... Think about it, if everyone has the same genetic material, what happens if we lose te ability to clone. ... Also as I stated in the first paragraph why clon someone you loved if they won"t even know who you are or why you love them....

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This may make the idea of genetic engineering seem great, we can stop all sorts diseases from happening. ... I don't mean to be clause but what about over population, if we cured every possible disease that is out there a lot of extra people would be around. ... The creation of a super human that can withstand any type of disease and will be able to resist any and all disease, this is a very scary future. ... And what you do to your body in its youth will effect you in old age. ... Or what they would do with them after they have been harvested, some of them will still be alive. ...

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The Benefits of Cloning Technology What comes to mind when people think about cloning? ... The result is lives saved and diseases, like genetic diseases, cancer, spinal cord injuries, and infertility being cured. ... But what many people don't know are the biggest benefits that cloning could give to humans. ... (Luykx 97) Diabetes and Parkinson's disease are just a few diseases that could benefit from cloning, according to the Human Cloning Foundation website. ... And to end this argument, I will leave you with a quote from one of the pioneers of the human cloning foundation,...

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Embryo splitting or blastomere separation is what is most commonly referred to as human cloning. ... Embryo splitting could also be used to rid the world of genetic diseases. One could clone their embryo and test one of the clones for a genetic disease. ... Would you be willing to have a cloned child? ... With adoption, the child you have is still unique. ...

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Imagine going home today to be surprised to find documents stating that you are a clone. Imagine the questions that would be running through you head. What am I? ... Imagine the pain you would feel, knowing that the person you have lived with or loved for your entire life was created in a science lab by a man wearing a white overcoat and a pair of plastic goggles. ... It would be more understandable if cloning was the only cure to diseases, however adult stem cells have already been successful in over 45 clinical trials and have treated cancer, to restore vision & treat M.S. & Parkinson diseas...

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Other scientists said the technique could be used to create animal models for human disease for scientific study. ... Biotechnology companies are developing animal models to test potential treatments for various life-threatening diseases. For example, mice are designed to be susceptible to a specific human disease. ... This could significantly enhance the ability to test new treatments for human diseases (Science). ... "What if the cloning person you produce someone with two heads and two arms, are you simply going to euthanize and dispose of that person?...

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In return this lowers the aging rate and prevents diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke and Alzheimer's. ... The creators of this diet stress that when on the Calorie Restriction diet you are not starving yourself. One reason this diet works is because, when you eat more calories than your body needs to function, it burns the excess calories off in a process called futile cycles. ... DHEA is the most abundant steroid in the body, yet nobody knows much about what it does. ... All of these factors help with prolonging life by reducing the risk of disease and returning or...

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Cloned stem cells may be more competent at replacing tissue damaged by disease or age than those from other sources. ... What occurs in this situation is adult cells are taken from a person's body, cloned embryos are created, then embryonic stem cells are extracted, which can turn into a wide range of tissues, all a perfect mach for any patient. 3. ... This can lead to genetic errors that result in disease. ... I hope that you have learned more about cloning than you previously knew, and that this information allows you to be a better judge of weather or not cloning should be supported ...

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But to understand the different viewpoints one might take, one also needs knowledge of what a clone is. ... We could cure heart disease, or even clone a new healthy heart for transplanting. ... Environmentalist ethics shows us that we are creatures of self-interest and if it doesn"t affect you then it's not a problem. ... We know what human cloning could do for us. ... We may also find cures to many diseases. ...

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Let it proceed, say opponents, and you have crossed a line toward the manufacture of humans as tools, and there is no going back"(Time Magazine). Scientists believe that the ability to research stem cells is a therapeutic necessity for life, that it would be able to cure many diseases or even prevent them from occurring, but it also gives scientists and doctors the option of growing organs to replace old and diseased ones. ... But what is so important about cloning farm animals? ... So what if people are dying and developing diseases? ... If you are born you must die; it is something that...

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First, I thought it would be useful to give you some background on the biotechnology industry. ... Our understanding has reached the stage where scientists use the technology to try to understand the basis of disease. ... We did not understand what was wrong when someone was sick, just that this or that chemical seemed to help. ... We now look at the mechanism behind the disease and then develop a drug to alter the outcome. ... Three years ago, many of you heard about Dolly, the first cloned animal. ...

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One question is what if this technology got into the wrong hands? Further, what if Hitler had this technology in the 1940's? ... That bull was left unable to breed after two diseased testicles were removed. ... With a genotype and appearance identical to another human being, how can you classify them as an individual? What would be some of the burdens of being the "child" or "parent" of your twin? ...

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If you had a grandparent with Alzheimer's or a best friend who was paralyzed from the waist down, wouldn't you want them to be magically healed? ... To extract the stem cells, you will in turn, kill the embryo. This has been the source of dispute since the discovery of stem cells as a cure for disease and injuries. ... Even though there is nothing controversial about what stem cells do, the method of obtaining the cells are the real problem. ...

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The first cloned sheep, Dolly born 6 years ago, died from a developing lung disease. ... Cloning has also contributed to breakthroughs in defeating fatal diseases. ... Controversy has spurred around the confusion of what a clone really is. ... "Copies of genes or cells made through genetic engineering are also clones- (Woods 11), but the real question that remains is "what was the last pair of twins heard of born fifty years ago to two different women? ... For instance, celebrities who are affected by these terminal diseases such as Michael J. ...

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Cloning would also develop stronger plants, resistant to disease, parasites, and insect damage. ... There is no telling what the possibilities can be. Edward Squires, an equine reproduction biologist at Colorado State, says, "You could blow your mind thinking about the possibilities." ... However this will also increase the danger of a disease being able to destroy the entire crop. ... Ian Wilmut, a researcher in Roslin Scotland says, "The more you interfere with reproduction, the more danger there is of things going wrong." ...

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The first thing to get cleared up is what is cloning and what is a clone. ... Cloning could help people cope with diseases and make them feel like a whole new person. ... Another possibility is if there was a hidden disease in an organism that was cloned. ... It depends on what kind of person they are. ... Why go through such pain when you can have a cloned baby. ...

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This is what is widely accepted as the "beginning- of cloning, as we know it today. ... This is being researched and developed to one day be used to treat patients with a variety of diseases, such as, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, stroke, diabetes, epilepsy, and others. ... The majority of the article discusses what really can be called therapeutic cloning; that is- using the genetic material from patients' own cells to produce replacement cells and tissue. ... One issue that posed a major obstacle to them was the question of what was "ethical- and what was not...

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We may be able to grow someone a new liver or heart, new neural tissue to combat degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, grow new kidneys, or even insulin producing cells to fight diabetes. ... At the moment, if you have a transplant, your body will try to reject the donated cells because it sees them as foreign. ... What is the most concerning idea here is that we are killing either a human being, or a potential human being. ... What about using condoms, should we mourn the loss of millions of potential lives? ... However, what is the alternative? ...

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-THE ETHICS ON HUMAN CLONING- Cloning is just one example of the great power of gene technology, a technology we urgently need to treat or cure diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, cancer or AIDS, and to help feed the growing world population. ... Assuming that scientists were able to clone human beings without incurring the risks mentioned above, what concerns might there be about the welfare of clones? ... Non ethical risk of abuse of the technology - what would Hitler have done with cloning technology if available in the 1940s? ... In any case it is a myth that you...

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You have been told that you are unique. The belief that there is no one else like you in the whole world made you feel special and proud. ... They enter different occupations, get different diseases, have different experiences with marriage, alcohol, community leadership, and etc. ... We have no idea what it would be like to grow up as the child of a parent who seems to know you from the inside. ... However, can you really say that you know God's intentions? ...

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Scientist Wilmut states that "[t]he success rate is so low that you would do better to breed naturally. [One] would get far more offspring" (Wilmut 69) What will happen to human clones that are not generated correctly? ... It violates the mystery of what it means to be human" (134). ... For instance, a person who is suffering from a kidney disease could get a clone of their particular organ, in which the clone organ will work better and longer than a transplant organ. The procedure of cloning could also have other medical breakthroughs such as producing ways to prevent heart failure, Down...

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