Cloning : A World Problem Or Abomination Against Mankind

Dolly the sheep, a clone born in Scotland in 1996, was the first mammal to ever be cloned from an adult cell using nuclear transfer. Her birth demonstrated for the first time that even DNA from already specialised adult cells could be used to create an entire healthy organism.

The Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland once said, “Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.” (Douglas Coupland Quotes) Cloning can refer to a number of processes, but is generally understood to mean creating an exact copy of a biological organism. For example, Scottish researchers created a lamb named Dolly from the udder cells of another sheep. (Cloning Fact Sheet) However, cloning can also refer to growing organs from existing cells. The issue for cloning is that creating a whole organism is expensive and goes against most religions. While this is true, cloning organs can offer people transplants in a cheap and legal manner.

Technology has changed our world for the better... or has it made our world worse? As technology changed(s), our ability to come up with new technological advances that we never thought possible, have become possible. At first the only cloning ever thought possible were the birth of twins, but now we can do more. Cloning has the potential to change the field of medicine, animal conservation and the meat and dairy industry, but even with all these beneficial achievements, some see cloning as a threat to the way we perceive the world. To understand the benefits of cloning, we must push aside their views and welcome a change in society.

They took a cell from an adult sheep’s udder and extracted the DNA. It was then put into a “blank” cell. This was the first time an adult cell had been used instead of an embryo cell. Adult cells do not have as much DNA as embryo cells. After 277 attempts an embryo was finally produced. Six days later the cells were transferred into a surrogate mother. The pregnancy progressed like normal and Dolly, named after singer Dolly Parton, was born on July 5th, 1996. Dolly lived for six years, which is only half the lifespan of a normal sheep. Dolly even had lambs. This first cloning led to many discussions about the morals of cloning. Animals cloned can have various health defects. The discussion even was presented that if humans were cloned they would lack personality and emotions. While humans haven’t been cloned great gains have been

I believe that cloning would be a major moral controversy 50 years from now just, because if that kind of technology gets into the wrong hand it could be dangerous. Yes, it could be beneficial in some way, but I think the consequence that could result from it would over power the purpose. For example, if cloning technology gets into the hands of one of our enemies they would then have the ability to create an army of cloned

the attempts made at adult mammal cloning actually work. Dolly’s status as the first true clone of

In the creation of technological advances that survives today, the dispute of cloning is ever existent as a debate of morals and human rights. People are asking if we have the right to clone humans and other animals. Cloning, the process of taking a cell from one organism, taking a donor womb cell from another organism of the same species, inserting the original cell in the donor cell, and placing the newly developed embryo inside a surrogate mother. This is an inhumane desecration of human rights and an obscene act against the natural balance of life. There are those who think that cloning is a brilliant idea and that it is tolerable to create life from an individual which already exists. Those in support of cloning have countless reasons for their opinion. They say that clones and cloning can be used for medical and research purposes, that clones are capable of populating our military. Another reason for cloning is to replace a deceased child or pet, or to enable infertile couples to have children. But these people in support of cloning seem to ignore one key factor that makes this act a violation of nature. All living human beings have feelings and thoughts, and that also includes clones. Cloning belittles the individualities each person and animals acquires, and many consider it an ethical injustice.

The sheep named Dolly was successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell using the above laboratory technique. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Edwards, 1999). The experiment started with 277 fused eggs but only 29 fused eggs became fertilized. The fertilized eggs were transferred into 13 sheep, however only one sheep became pregnant successfully. The other remaining 12 sheep failed to pregnant and several dead fetuses were then discovered from them. The successful clone, Dolly was born on July 5, 1996. Unfortunately, Dolly only live up to the age of six which is

In recent years, cloning has been a controversial topic, being highly debated by scientists, politicians, and philosophers alike while invigorating popular culture through works such as Star Wars or Aldous Huxley 's’ Brave New World (Brock E-3). However, the fantastical examples of cloning to increase labor supply or selective cloning to create a caste system as these works depict, are highly irrelevant to problems society faces today with the prospect of cloning. Current medical technology suggests that cloning may be a new alternative to adoption or natural reproduction for couples that may have medical complications in pregnancy and birth, or couples that may be unable to conceive entirely.Yet, because this technology is so new, and admittedly, in an early, undeveloped stage, legislations or established moral standards are still fairly non-existent, making it essential that certain boundaries be formed. Subsequently, this paper will attempt to do so by suggesting and justifying that cloning be permitted and considered morally permissible as a means for reproduction. In this, works by D.Brock, C.Strong, E. Berg, L.Kass, and T.Takala will be used to argue that the overall benefits relative to health would outweigh any possible counter arguments against the use of reproductive cloning as an alternative to natural reproduction.

Although there are many benefits to cloning and stem cell research, there is much to debate on the ethics. Many people feel that the scientific community are attempting to play “God”, while others do not see the harm if such research and experiments are used to benefit the well-being of man-kind. I will attempt to draw a conclusion on the ethics of stem cell research with this essay. Are cloning and stem cell research ethical?

Cloning has always been thought of as something futuristic like something right out of a mad scientists mind, as in movie or book. It has been used in countless media forms such as Star Wars, Jurassic Park and many other iconic films. The media betrayal has put cloning to fame. Most of the world has heard of cloning and many ideas come to mind, however most of the thoughts that come to mind are misconstrued and outdated due to media misconceptions and conclusions drawn upon by the public. That being said, cloning’s overall myths or rumors get built into what people believe to become common knowledge or facts about cloning. Cloning is much more than just making a copy of a person or some kind of object.

In July 5 1996, Dolly the sheep, is the first organism to be successfully cloned. Although it took 277 attempts to clone Dolly, the Roslin Institute managed to “resurrect” Dolly back to life again. She was the living proof that cloning an organism was attainable, therefore mark the rise of several cloning experiments. Numerous scientist names began to flood the media, such as Shinya Yamanaka, Hwang Woo-Suk and Dr. Panayiotis Zavos (Murray, Embryonic Stem Cells: Where Are the Cures? Thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of lives killed under microscopes. Not one cure. Not one apology. Sample, What’s Wrong with Cloning Human). These people and some other scientist around the world have been trying to find a way to make cloning safer for

“Clones are organisms that are exact genetic copies. Every single bit of their DNA is identical. Clones can happen naturally—identical twins are just one of many examples. Or they can be made in the lab. Natural identical twins are similar to and different from clones made through modern cloning technologies.” (Genetic Science Learning Center) Cloning has many different aspects; there is the moral, social and ethical aspects of cloning. Along with this you have to consider who is being cloned. There is cloning for a human being, animal, or even food. Depending on what is being cloned is what determines if it is allowed or not. Throughout this paper I will discuss many of the aspects of cloning.

Cloning of Dolly the Sheep was a first on many fronts. First, it represented the first mammal ever to be cloned from a somatic cell. It also sets a benchmark on which to evaluate other animal cloning experiments going forward. Secondly, her cloning was the start of controversy and panic in regards to animal cloning, as it raised the question of whether scientists would seek to clone humans too, and the ethics behind such a practice, should it ever be adopted. Over the past few years, animal cloning has yielded remarkable results, and this has given scientists hope of a possible human clone over the next few years (University of Utah Health Sciences n.p.). When such reports of cloning success appear in the media, only few attempts works. However, for every success story, there are many other cloning experiments that have dismally failed. Out of 100 cloning experiments, less than three, at the maximum, yield viable offsprings (Harper n.p.). Even for these few success stories about cloning, problems often emerge later, as the animal develops towards adulthood. Although there is limited scientific explanations for the cause of such high failure rates, most researchers believe that it is an indication of the technical hurdles facing cloning experiments. The important lesson that can be drawn from the cloning of animals is the likely influences in case humans are cloned. While a growing

Mankind has always tried to extend his knowledge about the properties of every living thing; it is an integral part of human nature. What is also important about it is that there is constant disagreement in new views between scientists and society. One such problem is the question of human cloning. Firstly, the term “cloning” must be defined: “Cloning is the production of an exact genetic duplicate of a living organism or cell” (Baird 2002, 20). This procedure not only led to producing a sheep, Dolly, but it can also have other very useful applications. Using different methods of cloning is expected to change radically the process of organ transplantation and it is a way of finding appropriate treatments of diseases. As a result of this