Cloning is when you take one thing and make an exact replica of it. Is cloning right or wrong? This is a question that has been raised by many people in the past few years. Many argue that cloning is wrong because of ethical purposes and its disrespect for humanity. The U.S House of Representatives voted to stop cloning. The penalties for cloning included up to ten years in prison and a $1 million fine to anyone convicted for trying to clone humans. Nevertheless, the U.S Senate never took up the issue, so it did not become a law. The Catholic Church also emphasizes that cloning violates Catholic teaching that life begins at conception. Although all these reasons are acceptable, I believe that cloning should not be viewed as a negative thing because it has advantages that could help a lot of people and animals.
First of all, many people would benefit from therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning is the creation of human embryos used for medical purposes. Researchers protected the progress by saying they wanted to use the cloned embryos to harvest stem cells, rather than to create babies. Stem cells can be used to treat an immense amount of diseases, such as: diabetes, strokes, cancer, and AIDS. I believe this is a great thing because many people out there are suffering and could benefit from this. For example, a young woman Shauna Anderson said, "I"m a 29-year-old girl who's dying of kidney failure, that if I don't get an organ donor by the time I need to have a transplant, I"m dead." (From Odyssey Weekly) It is people such as Shauna that makes a person question the validity of cloning. Why should a young people with their whole lives ahead of them have to resort to death? Many countries around the world are strongly considering cloning because of this. Britain recently made a final national policy allowing cloning research. Chinese scientists also claimed they had already cloned dozens of human embryos for that purpose.
Cloning In the past few years, the topic of cloning has been in the news a lot. ... Drawbacks There are also many reasons not to clone. ... Despite the Advantages... There are many advantages to continuing experimentation in the field of human cloning. ... Despite these advantages, the possible effects and moral considerations are too great for us to continue exploring this new science. ...
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. ... The farming and live stock industries have already taken advantage of cloning technology to improve the quality as well as the quantity of their production. ... To clone or not to clone is not the question. ...
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. ... If human cloning is successful, it will give scientist the ability to take advantage in a negative way. ... More likely a human clone will attract world-wide attention, especially the very first clone. ...
But do they realize the advantages that could come from this? ... The advantages of cloning in today's time would definitely help out Americans as well as fellow countries on the process of maintaining life and keep everyone to a very, very old age. ... Another major advantage to cloning would be to bring back a loved one and have them there like they had never left. ... Even though the top two examples of cloning have its advantages, there is a downside to this as well. ... As you can se the disadvantages of cloning somewhat outweigh the advantages of cloning. ...
Cloning is a very controversial subject; there are many advantages as there are disadvantages to cloning. ... I believe that cloning or new discoveries from cloning will eventually outweigh the disadvantages of cloning such as ethical questions. First on the list let us discuss the advantages of cloning. ... Clone him and ask. ... There is no denying that cloning has a lot of potential, but it still is a double edge sword, with advantage and disadvantages. ...
Two of them are: Adult DNA cloning and Therapeutic cloning. ... The other type of cloning, "Therapeutic cloning starts with the same procedure as is used in adult DNA cloning. ... There are many advantages as well as disadvantages to humans cloning, but before we get into the issue about cloning we need to explore the advantages of cloning, which is not bad itself. ... The advantages of human cloning even though there are very few cases, is that women who could not give birth to children will get the chance to bear a child. ... In my opinion another advantage I feel that might be looked upon f...
Clones can be made from DNA. ... Animals can also be cloned. ... Also, by trying to better the offspring of a human, you are making an unfair advantage of a child who is either smart, pretty or whatever characteristic that a parent may want a clone. ... This is because all of the genes are the same and very few organisms have the advantage of fighting the disease over the others. ... Cloning also has not been very successful since the clone of "Dolly" in 1997. ...
Those who have random mutations that give them survival advantages are the ones who continue to breed. ... If people who were lucky enough to be born with selective advantages were able to clone themselves, then the world genetic pool would be impoverished and could be potentially skewed towards those few. ... If cloning were allowed, even on a small scale, it would lead down a very slippery slope eventually leading to wholesale cloning. ... The same is true with clones. ... Human cloning should never be allowed to occur. ...
