You have been told that you are unique. The belief that there is no one else like you in the whole world made you feel special and proud. This belief may not be true in the future. The world was stunned by the news in late February 1997 that a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had successfully cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Dolly was created by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder. While plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher animals. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the ethical implications of cloning.
Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this threat. Former president, Bill Clinton, swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human cloning research. Bills are in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning. But what is exactly bad about it? From an ethical point of view, it is difficult to see exactly what is wrong with cloning human beings. The people who are afraid of cloning tend to think that someone will break into an evil dictators tomb, steal some DNA, and make 2,000 evil dictators. In reality, cloning would be probably used by infertile people who now use donated sperm, eggs, or embryos. Do the potential harms outweigh the potential benefits of cloning? From what we know now, they don't. Therefore, we should not rush to ban a potentially useful method of helping infertile, genetically at-risk, or single people become parents.
We can start by asking whether human beings have a right to reproduce. I say "Yes". I have no moral right to tell other people they shouldn't be able to have children. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? Essentially, all reproduction is done these days with medical help- at delivery, and even before.
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. ... They can prove their position with physical evidence, test results and living multi-cellular organisms, mammals, conceived through the love of science. ...
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." ... He a...
The Bioethical Focus article entitled "Cloning in Humans" gives us some basic background information on cloning. ... Human cloning also gives rise to the production of stem cells. ... The one and only wish of a parent is that their child is born healthy and fully capable and I believe that cloning would make this possible In the case of cloning in order to produce improved breeds of farm animals, I still take the position of banning it in the United States. ... So is cloning right or wrong? ... As to everything there is a good and a bad side to cloning. ...
This heralded the future of further cloning possibilities and scientists began extensive experiments on cloning, and have since cloned both plants and animals successfully. ... In December of 2001, the United Kingdom put a ban on human reproductive cloning but not therapeutic cloning (Seppa, 32). ... Those with objections to the use of cloning to better these people's lives obviously haven't put themselves in the position of anyone who could potentially be saved by these new techniques. ... It is believed that the human mind is far too complex and difficult to clone at this stage o...
This heralded the future of further cloning possibilities and scientists began extensive experiments on cloning, and have since cloned both plants and animals successfully. ... In December of 2001, the United Kingdom put a ban on human reproductive cloning but not therapeutic cloning (Seppa, 32). ... Those with objections to the use of cloning to better these people's lives obviously haven't put themselves in the position of anyone who could potentially be saved by these new techniques. ... It is believed that the human mind is far too complex and difficult to clone at this stage o...
Many believe that cloning humans is morally wrong. ... However, my position to profit from the use of cloning is not the reason that I believe that there is nothing morally wrong with the practice of cloning. Once Cloneco and other cloning research facilities have performed sufficient research on cloning, the practice of cloning will have many health benefits. ... They believe that some people will use cloning as a means of becoming immortal by repeatedly cloning themselves or that people would try to replace others with clones. ... It is possible to clone only organs without cloning ful...
Those with objections to the use of cloning to better these people's lives obviously haven't put themselves in the position of anyone who could potentially be saved by these new techniques. ... Cloning is the future. ... The Clone Age. ... Human Cloning. ... Clones and Clones. ...
Human Cloning: An issue of Ethics vs. ... I fully support cloning in any other aspect other than human cloning. ... My position is that the results and consequences of researching cloning, perfecting cloning, and the inappropriate, inevitable situations for which human cloning will be used are not only unethical, but also atrocious. ... Will those clones that are the final perfection of human cloning be accepted in a society torn over this controversy? ... Therefore, if the majority of America supports cloning the government has no choice but to legalize human cloning. ...
Ethical Positions on Animal Cloning Science and human values often clash. ... Public surveys taken after the revelation of the cloned sheep, Dolly, found that most people are opposed to human cloning (see for example Time , March 10, 1997). There is a greater tolerance for cloning animals to serve human purposes. However, some groups oppose animal cloning for moral reasons. ... Despite the focus on the ethics of human cloning, there are ethical questions surrounding animal cloning that should be explored. ...
