Cloning is a relatively new area of interest that has become a hotbed for many bioethical discussions. At this time, most people are ethically against the idea of it. A 1997-Feb CNN poll conducted among 1,005 American adults (with a margin of 3% error), found that 93% of people feel that cloning humans is a bad idea. Also 69% of the survey population are scared of the possible effects of cloning humans. Those against human cloning are seen as scared, weak and uneducated on the topic of cloning. But they have their reasons. Certain religions do not accept them, and due to the overwhelming power the church has, people are conformed into thinking the same way their church does. There are also those who feel that it would be a waste of precious human life to research how to make clones. How many lives would be extinguished before the scientists finally get it right? Since a human clone has not been created (that we know of) we have no way to detect how right or wrong our views are. But the day that we will find out cannot be far off. .
Since the church has such an overwhelming grasp upon society, what it says goes. The Christian religion has a problem with clones because God does not create them. Since God is the one who creates souls, the cloned person would not have one because God did not create them. The Church of Scotland defines a soul as "weightless, colourless, odourless, has never been detected by any measurement and it may not even exist." And even so, it is still one of the most pressing reasons not to clone. Members of some religious sects, particularly Roman Catholicism, believe that a soul enters the body at the moment of conception, and that the fertilized ovum is in fact a human person with full human rights. Dividing that "baby" in half during an embryo cloning procedure would interfere with God's intent. It is also experimentation on live people. The many cloned zygotes that die after a few cell divisions are lost human beings.
What about human clones? Will cloning a human be a mistake or a miracle? ... How can we control human cloning world wide? ... Since we don't have a human clone yet, human cloning is too risky because we have too many unanswered questions. ... Another risk of human cloning is identity. ...
Why should we clone human beings? ... There are many health issues that can be avoided, reversed and cured by the cloning of human cells and body parts. ... The Food And Drug (FDA) has stated that it will not endorse or approve human cloning until such a time when cloning can be shown to be safe and effective. ... The ban on human cloning should be reconsidered. ... There are more reasons to clone human beings than just the medical breakthroughs of curing infertility, eliminating disease and extending human life spans. ...
The technology of cloning main objective is research on how to understand the human DNA better. ... All things considered, cloning technology has a lot to offer to human civilization. ... In Support of the Argument for Human Cloning. 31 Oct 1999. ... All the Reasons to Clone Human Beings. 2001. ... The benefits of human cloning. ...
I think that the DNA from a well-developed soldier with no major illnesses should be taken and cloned to produce several human beings to help fight wars. ... According to the article "Cloning" in the Washington Post, cloning individual human cells could lead to the vaccines and cures for cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis and many other diseases with no cure. ... According to the article "Human Cloning" by D. Dennis for the Human Cloning Organization in October of 2002, "Cloning could be used to help us understand things about the human body that cannot be solved by modern scientists. Clon...
So, it seems that the government is not giving human cloning a chance. ... Nerves and spinal cord could be grown, giving quadriplegics the ability to walk again (Human Cloning Foundation). ... Rothenberg goes on to say that cloning would challenge "concepts basic to our humanness." ... There are many advantages to continuing experimentation in the field of human cloning. ... The human race has made it this far without cloning, and we will continue to survive without it....
What are the common perceptions about human cloning? ... What is the general attitude regarding human cloning? Importance of the Study: Cloning humans is a controversial issue. ... To learn more about human cloning. ... Human Cloning : the process wherein human embryo are allowed to be divided and then separate them and allowed to developed into two embryos with identical genes which could become identical human beings. ...
Human Cloning Causes More Good Than Harm The idea of human cloning has been in science fiction movies for decades. ... The Cloning of humans will cause more good than harm. ... The process of human cloning is very difficult. ... Although there has not been a human clone produced there have been request from numerous people who would like to receive a human clone. ... When human cloning does come to existence there are many scenarios where the use of human cloning could be helpful. ...
In today's society, many people are concerned with the topic of human cloning. ... The experiment with Dolly led to many concerns towards human cloning. ... Despite the possibilities involved in cloning human beings, cloning is proven to be inefficient, violates religious ethics, and intrudes upon human dignity. ... When taking human cloning into consideration, would a clone have the same rights and obligations as a human? ... Human Cloning. 1998. ...
Human cloning means designer people with known pedigree. ... Cloning of human embryos has already been achieved. ... Huge amounts of money are at stake in human cloning research. ... One set of ethical concerns about human clones involves the risks and uncertainties associated with the current state of cloning technology. ... 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? ...
