Over the years the world has been able to achieve many technological advances; however, not all of them have been proved to be ethically correct. The fabrication of a living, breathing human being, in my opinion, is morally and ethically wrong. The prospect of mass production of human beings, compromised in their individually, identity, and self-image outweighs whatever benefits could come out of human cloning.
Though the arrogance of the media, cloning has been made to seem simple and safe. However, this could not be further from the truth. Cloning constitutes unethical experimentation on a child-to-be, subjecting him or her to enormous risks of bodily and developmental abnormalities. When Dolly, the sheep who was cloned on February 24, 1997 in Edinburgh Scotland, was finally born; Dolly's creator, Dr. Ian Wilmot, said he "would find it offensive" to clone a human being. When Dolly was finally conceived it was attempt number 277. (http://johnmarkhicks.faithsite.com/content.asp? CID=4525) How would you react if you knew 277 children had to die before one could be successful? If you could even call Dolly a success. Dolly had numerous issues after birth. The average age of a sheep is from nine to twelve years. Dolly suffered from premature aging and a progressive lung disease, which resulted in an early death of only six. This is half the lifespan of a normal sheep. Children-to-be would end up being treated as lab rats, experiments after experiment would be made. Even if the child lived there would be numerous miscarriages and the child might not live to a full life like a normal human. How could any one risk the life of children? When the child died could you risk another chance at making another mistake? .
Humans are endowed with qualities that no man should be able to take away. Cloning is threatening these qualities and rights of what it means to be an individual. The clone would be an exact genotypic duplicate, resulting in the loss of his or her individuality.
