Cloning
Everyone has probably heard about the never ending debate on cloning, whether it be cloning the genetic makeup of a human to make an exact replica, or bringing back an endangered or extinct animal species to a decent population on earth. When it comes to cloning, everyone has his own personal opinion on the topic. People discussing cloning have come up with many logical reasons either to support cloning or go against it.
Cloning is the use of molecular techniques to acquire an exact copy of the DNA (Lerner). This can be either for a human or an animal. On November 25, 2001, a small scientific medical company in Massachusetts, ACT (advanced Cell Technology), announced it had cloned a human embryo, arousing something not that far from chaos. Cloning is an asexual, meaning nonsexual, way of reproducing or copying another organisms basic genetic structure. Human cloning was banned over most of the world because of the idea of some believing it is an unethical process (Goodnough 5).
Cloning is seemed unethical because the research needed to perfect the process of cloning would produce “imperfect” creations, and simply trashing these creations would be unethical. There are many reasons one should be against cloning. People say because clones would not have parents, that they would be mistreated and ridiculed (Winters 9). Also, cloning provides humans with the powers of god, which does not agree with some religious group’s teachings. Cloning gives humans the ability to determine someone’s genetic makeup, which is unethical in most religions (Winters 21). There is also another idea that cloning could help people who have lost someone dear in their family by “bringing back” the person who has passed. This is a most absurd assumption seeing that in reality the family would only be getting back a person with the same genes, or replica, of the person lost. This has also been asked about for animals and pets (Goodnough 34). Even if human cloning...
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