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Cloning Argument Analysis

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After the excessive amount of unsuccessful attempts at producing a surviving clone, the controversy of cloning heightened. The topic of cloning has faced ethical issues since it was proposed, but after certain information on the creation of clones was released the ethical matter of cloning was put more up to questioning. Cloning involves the production of genetically identical copies of living organisms, a production that could easily have a negative effect on the human population just as well as it could help keep many others alive. There are three different types of cloning: DNA cloning or gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic cloning, each one used for a different reason. All three types could benefit the population in a short …show more content…

An endangered species that goes extinct eventually ends up affecting all the animals in their habitat. If an animal that various other animals depend on goes extinct other animals could also go into extinction since they most likely will not be able to adapt quickly to finding new prey leading to starvation. Animals could also face the problem of having to immigrate to a new environment for food leading to their extinction because they were unable to adapt quickly to the new habitat. Through the clone technology scientists hope they will soon be able to save more species saying “we will perfect the technology to clone animals, and thus we could forever preserve endangered species” (Document A). The argument of saving endangered species is invalid because it is rare that a clone embryo will survive and if only few animals of a kind are left they will be forced to keep inserting embryos into a surrogate mother that could potentially kill the mothers too. If their bodies cannot handle carrying another organism or if having surgery a lot to insert the embryo the new mothers can now also die leaving the species without anyone to carry their children. While trying to save a species they run the risk of completely killing it off in a shorter amount of time than they expected. Even if the embryo lives up to the birthing moment the probability of the clone surviving is so little that they would be spending money to create more of a species that would return right back to being endangered in a short period of

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