Even though there are a lot of reasons that many people want to be cloned, there are a lot of things they might not be thinking about. People need to think about the health risks involved in cloning, the emotional risks, and abusing the new technology. The world could get way over populated from this new technology. Cloning in many ways would affect the world and just give the world another problem to worry about. It's just not a very good idea over all.
The opposing side argues that we could really use cloning for health benefits. We could use them for their organs for people who need them. If something awful happened to a person, like they got really sick or had an incurable disease , they argue that they could just clone the body and make their body new again. The opposing side states that if someone wanted a twin or another one of themselves for any reason they would be able to just clone that person and there would be another. Cloning has been proven through animals, so we all know that it can be done but cloning human beings is taking it too far.
There are huge health risks involving cloning that need to be though of. There is an extremely high risk of abnormality to anything being cloned. So if we were to clone a human being there is a risk that it could be born abnormal and that is a mother's worst nightmare even in the world today. According to an article by Dr Patrick Dixon, "a cloned cow recently died several weeks after birth with a huge abnormality of blood cell production and dolly the sheep died prematurely of severe lung disease" (para 1). If there is such a great risk of abnormality then why even bother trying to clone a human being? Also according to Issues & Controversies, "since animal cloning has produced an extremely high rate of birth defects and early mortality, critics contend that the risk of subjecting humans to such fates is unacceptably high" (para 6).
Is cloning legal? ... What is cloning? ... Cloning 3 Now that we have established the scientific basis of cloning, let me tell you how cloning can directly benefit humanity. ... To clone or not to clone is not the question. Cloning is the future. ...
We have also heard about three cloned cows. What about human clones? ... The cloning revolution now leads us an ethical issue about human cloning. ... Cloning technology can help remove disease from a clone when the original suffered from disease. ... More likely a human clone will attract world-wide attention, especially the very first clone. ...
Cloning In the past few years, the topic of cloning has been in the news a lot. ... In order for cloning to take place, all genes must be active. ... Cloning could also revolutionize the field of organ transplant. Organs and bone marrow could be cloned and used for transplant. ... Drawbacks There are also many reasons not to clone. ...
The Benefits of Cloning Technology What comes to mind when people think about cloning? Probably a movie they have seen before, like The Sixth Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a man who is cloned without his knowledge. The clone takes over his life. This is just one fear that people have. But t...
In today's society cloning is one of the most talked about and controversial issues. There are numerous people that oppose cloning while on the other hand there are people who are for cloning. People who are against cloning bring up points of morality and religion. ... Among all of this controversy, there are benefits to cloning. ... According to the article "Human Cloning" by D. ...
Firstly, "Human cloning is a form of cloning which is designed to result in a copy of a human being," this means that the procedures that human cloning contains is specifically designed to result in an exact copy of the human being cloned. ... "Human cloning creates questions about the soul, the role of God in society, and even the quality of life that a cloned person may have." The disadvantages of human cloning are undoubtedly clear. ... "One of the most noticeable is that the cloned child will have exactly the same medical history as their parent clone's." ... Ther...
This paper is not meant to be a history lesson in cloning or to explain all the scientific terms that are related to cloning. ... Identical siblings constitute a clone. ... Dolly was a sheep and the first cloned mammal. ... One patient has a clone and all that needs to be done is remove the clone liver and place it in his/her body. ... Before cloning the term used was eugenics. ...
There are three different types of cloning. ... Next there is Adult DNA cloning; this is the most common type of cloning that is thought of because it shows a clone that was made from another living organism and looks exactly the same("Human" 1). ... There are many questions when it comes to cloning and the ethics of cloning. ... More importantly, who will get cloned? ... Most people scared of cloning encourage the study of cloning but do not like the idea of actually cloning humans, which is understandable (Stanley 37). ...
There are three types of cloning methods the first is Embryo cloning. The second is reproductive cloning and the third is therapeutic cloning. ... Therapeutic cloning is a process in which the initial stages are identical to adult DNA cloning. ... (Cloning process) The rapid development of the technology for cloning has led to moral debates around the world on whether or not to ban creating human clones. ... Another argument for cloning is that individuals with characteristics can be cloned as substitutes. ...