Outside the lab where the cloning had actually taken place, most of us thought it could never happen. Oh we would say that perhaps at some point in the distant future, cloning might become feasible through the use of sophisticated biotechnologies far beyond those available to us now. But what we really believed, deep in our hearts, was that this was one biological feat we could never master. Cloning is a procedure that is nothing less than detrimental to society at large. While there may be some positive implications, nothing is worth cloning?s inherent negative effects on our species as we know it. The introduction of cloning to society would more then likely be at the cost of humanity, individuality and the risk of physical harm to produce something that more than likely could have been produced in other ways. It is a procedure that is not moral on many levels, due to its possible harm to child and parent, its religious implications and its overall unfavorable ratio of harm to good. Try to imagine some of the scenarios that might arise due to cloning humans. When a child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, and her grandmother is her mother, this becomes confusing for the child. These are unbearable emotional pressures on a teenager. What happens to a marriage when the ?father? sees his wife?s clone grow up into the exact replica of the beautiful 18 year old he fell in love with 35 years ago? A sexual relationship would of course be with his wife?s twin, no incest involved technically.
The Essay on Human Cloning Child People Clone
Another Chance of Life Can there be another you? The answer is no, but by human cloning you can reproduce an offspring that grows into an exact genetically double of you. All of us want to prolong the lives of our loved ones and have a healthy newborn baby. Many infertility couples wanted to have a baby that is genetically theirs, not from adopting a child from a different family background. In ...
Clones also may lose ?the right to an open future?. A child might be constantly compared to the adult from whom he was cloned. He would thereby be burdened with oppressive expectations. A child may also be burdened by the thought that he is a copy and not an original. The child?s sense of self-worth, individuality, or dignity would be difficult to sustain. A parent might limit the child?s opportunity for growth and development. A child cloned from a basketball player, might be denied any educational opportunities that were not in line with a career in basketball. There is no way anybody could claim what the emotional ramifications on a particular individual would be, due to the fact that these situations have never occurred before. Many religious and pro-life groups argue that cloning for any experimentation breaks the sanctity of human life and should never be accepted. These groups feel as if cloning is neo-cannibalism. A strong warning came to scientists everywhere about ?playing God?. It said that playing God would violate the distinctions between man and God: Human beings should not gain access to the fundamental secrets and mysteries of life which belong to God, and human beings lack the authority to regulate the beginning and or the end of life as such reservations are for divine sovereignty.
Some groups particularly Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics believe that a soul enters the body at the instant of conception, and the fertilized ovum is in fact a human being. Dividing that ?Baby? in half would interfere with Gods intent. And the many cloned zygotes that died after a few cell divisions would be lost human beings; their loss is considered as serious as the death of a newborn baby. In a 1997 CNN pole among 1005 American Adults that has a margin of error of 3% found that 74% believe that human cloning is against Gods will. Overall the religious community as expected had strong objections towards this particular scientific advance. In addition, there is no guarantee that the first cloned humans would be normal. They might suffer from a disorder that is not detectable by ultrasound. They may also be born disabled. Of the children that do survive, many would die within a few days of life. Doctors would have to provide much hormonal manipulation in order to allow the procedure of commences. Also, of the women that become pregnant more than one half would lose their children due to miscarriages or fatal birth defects. The somatic cell nuclear transfer that produced Dolly was successful in only one of 277 attempts.
The Essay on Human Cloning People Society Clone
... argue that human cloning should be used in order to better ones life. I look at it as god creates everyone ... the most argued points against the practice of human cloning. When a clone is born, if we regard them as ... you or me, then why even clone? It is unfair to the child that is born if society doesn't ... accept him the way that it should. The clone itself ...
If this same procedure was applied to human, the requirements could be devastating to the potential mother. The actual process of cloning is very complicated; however, it can be broken down into a layman?s understanding. This process involves removing the nucleus of an ovum and replacing it with an epithedal cell, or a cell with the basic number of chromosomes doubled. This type of nuclear transfer has the potential for serious physical harms to all involved in the procedure. Cloning can also be used to eliminate zygotes of a particular sexual orientation. When the gene or genes that determine sexual orientation are located, this elimination could begin to occur. While the aim of assisted reproductive technologies is to allow people to produce or raise a child to whom they are biologically connected, such technologies may also involve the creations of social ties that are permitted to override biological ones. There are so many questions to take into consideration when cloning is involved.
Is the clone an offspring or a sibling? Does the clone have one biological parent or two? Typically the parent not the sibling is responsible for the child. But, if no one is ambiguously the parent, who is responsible for that anonymous sperm donor is thought to have no parental obligations toward his biological child. In addition, a surrogate mother may be required to relinquish all parental claims to the child she bears. A country might finance a program similar to that of Nazi Germany whereby humans were bred to maximize certain traits. Once the “perfect human” was developed, embryo cloning could be used to replicate that individual and conceivably produce unlimited numbers of clones. The same approach could be used to create a genetic underclass for exploitation: e.g. individuals with sub-normal intelligence and above normal strength. Overall, it is the opinion of this author that the scientific world is not sufficiently prepared to conduct research on human cloning now or anytime in the near future, if ever. There are too many unanswered questions about individuality, social and emotional implications and humanity. Even if these things were addressed and sufficient counter-measures were implicated to ensure the clone?s quality of life, what about religion? ?In god we trust?? Does our society turn it?s back on these ideals, and ?play the role of god?? There are so many issues that come to the table when it comes to cloning, the questions brought forth in this paper don?t even scratch the surface. When it gets down to it, it simply isn?t ethical to clone a human being, even if it is for a good cause, such as giving an infertile person the ability to have a child. The ends DO NOT justify the means. Experimenting with human life is a realm that we have no business experimenting with.
The Essay on Cloning Human Masci One
... Human Cloning. 28 February 2000. http: //www. global change. com / clone tech . htm . Masci, David. The Cloning Controversy. CQ Researcher. 1997 ed. The Benefits of Human Cloning. Human Cloning ... still have a genetically related child (Masci 413-414). With cloning, egg and sperm would ... moral considerations are too great for us to continue experimentation. Benefits One of the major benefits of cloning ...
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