Wilmut used a lamb to accomplish the first attempt to reproduce a clone from an adult animal, which he called Dolly. ... When taking human cloning into consideration, would a clone have the same rights and obligations as a human? ... Human cloning can have many benefits such as researching medical breakthroughs and using animals to produce organs. ... Additionally, the process of cloning can lead to breakthroughs that give animals the capability to produce organs for humans. For example, cloning technology would allow scientists to create animals which would produce organs for transplants....

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The argument of many scientists around the world is that they"re research is helping and even saving lives of animals. ... What world is this where animals can be cloned to be just like another? ... I find this research and development dangerous for the sake of individuality and the rights of nature. ... You can't take away scientists" rights once they've started. ...

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There are many positive uses for animal and human cloning. First for animal cloning we could grow human organs that we could use for transplant. ... Another use of animal cloning would be done by inserting a human gene into a cell and then performing nuclear transplantation we could get animal that is born with factor IX. ... Everything that has a good side to it has a bad including animal and human cloning. ... A cloned person could have fewer rights and a weakened sense of individuality. ...

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The technique that is used to clone the animals is called nuclear transfer and as it improves it could dramatically benefit the agricultural industry. Another ways it can benefit animals is we now have the ability to save endangered species. ... There are also debates on the moral rights of clones. ...

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Reproductive cloning is how animals are cloned today. ... Others replicated his experiment with a variety of animal. ... Some think that they may have fewer rights than what normal humans have. ... Cloning of animals seems to be okay by me. A few aspects that I can think of are being able to bring the population of endangered animals up. ...

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It is pointed out that the clones are only living organisms, they will have no rights, no inheritance, and no place in society (The Sixth Day 2000) besides perhaps being another body part for someone else. ... Just as we have laws to protect the environment and animals, the clones are still living organisms that will want laws for their own protection. ... The first and common theme showed that in the end cloning is the worst idea because clones themselves will want to have rights and their own freedom. However, they will not be viewed as having any actually rights because they are not huma...

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While plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher animals. ... They have their own identities, their own thoughts, and their own rights. ...

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Precis In his work Cloning of Embryo Stirs Ethical, James Wall, author for the Christian Century states, "Strictly speaking embryo cloning is a technique used by researchers and animal breeders to split a single embryo into two or more embryos that will have the exact same genetic information (Wall 117)." "The procedures used in cloning human embryos are very similar to the cloning of animal embryos, except for the zona pellucida. ... There is also a debate as to the moral rights of clones. ...

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After the cloning of plants came the cloning of animals which led up to the creation of Dolly, the cloned sheep, in February of 1997 (Heinberg ix). ... These are serious issues that should be taken into deep consideration before cloning rights are passed. ...

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