Cloning can be the answer to many of the threats that loom on the human horizon. I believe that it can help many people in the future. Through cloning we might eventually be able to find cures for cancer, AIDS, or other genetic or life-threatening diseases. We might also be able to prevent heart attacks or strokes. We may also be able to correct peristalsis, which has paralyzed many including Christopher Reeves. When scientists finally finish mapping the human genome, and apply that knowledge with what is known about cloning, we will be able to accomplish all of these positive goals. Unfortunately, when people think of cloning they do not think of these positive achievements, but rather the cartoon like events that have been pressed upon us by the media and futuristic fatalists. They espouse that millionaires will get themselves cloned or their children cloned, in an attempt to live forever. They will use the clones to provide organs whenever necessary. This of course is pure fantasy. The Human Rights Act insures that all humans, clones or not, have rights even birthrights. This means that if the clone does not want to give an organ to their original, then they don't have to. By analyzing the current information regarding cloning, it can be shown that there are many reasons for supporting continued research -- from curing life-threatening diseases to saving endangered animals.
The shortage of viable human organs is a real problem today. Donor organs are often not available when needed or are rejected by the host. Cloning could completely eliminate the problem of finding matching organs when they are needed. "It's a transplants surgeon's dream." (Philip Cohen, July 11, 1998) New technology techniques takes a cow egg, strips it of its nuclei and fuses it with a human cell to create an embryo that begins to grow either in a test tube or in a petri dish. Following the initial growth, the embryonic stem, or ES cells, are taken from the embryo so that the cell can develop into a wide range of tissues.
