Cloning: Louisiana's Ethical Dilemma

For years and years the practice of trying to raise and breed the best type of stock or plants possible. For example, the ancient Egyptians have spent years and years trying to breed the best type of Arabian breed horses that could handle the heat and go without water for large amounts of time. All the while having the speed and stamina to accomplish whatever they desired. Also the modern day farmer trying to plant a type of corn that can withstand many different weather conditions and still produce many ears of corn from a single stalk. So as time has showed we have tried and tried to accomplish the goal of better our livestock and plants to get ahead in society. That’s were cloning comes in. According to some, cloning has the chance to

In 1885, there was the first ever demonstration of artificial embryo cloning of a sea urchin. While that is a relatively noncomplex organism, by 1996 scientist in Scotland where able to clone a sheep, a mammal, through somatic cell nuclear transfer. Everyday there is some kind of scientific break through but they are not all good. It took them two hundred seventy seven failures to create the sheep. The ethical issues are not where it stops; if government where able to clone humans it could lead to the construction of super soldiers, genetically modifies humans, which could lead to war on a global scale. So the United States should have stricter laws on research into human cloning to avoid a war the could wipe out the entire planet.

Although there is relatively low success in animal cloning, with optimization it promises great advantages for commerce and research alike. Cloning animals for agricultural

A better knowledge of these impacts can be obtained by discussing the good and bad of animal cloning. One application of the cloning technique is by cloning genetically modified animals, so that their cells and organs can be transplanted into humans. Thousands of patients die as a result of the unavailability of human organs for transplantations and this cloning technique could potentially be a solution within the medical

Although the movie is set in a futuristic setting, it is able to relate to existing ethical problems in our world. The main example of this is the major ethical concern over cloning and the right to take another’s life, regardless if they are a clone or not. In the movie, humanity uses cloning and scientific engineering to improve and save other people’s lives, similar to our world’s intentions of using science to help others. However, the movie and our world both have a similar problem: we tend to abuse the benefits given by science and only use the science to satisfy our own needs while neglecting the welfare of the clones’ lives. This connection is able to warn the audience of our possible future and demonstrate how scientific engineering

For the last few decades, cloning was a fictitious idea that lay deep within the pages of sci-fi novels and movies. The very idea that cloning could one day become reality was thought to be a scientific impossibility by many experts. But on February 22, 1997, what was thought to be purely science fiction became reality. That day, a team from the Roslin Institute, led by Dr. Ian Wilmut, changed the history forever by revealing what looked like an average sheep. And its name was Dolly. Dolly became one of the most famous if not the most famous sheep in modern day. She was the first ever clone of a mammal. She was an exact biological carbon copy, a laboratory counterfeit of her mother. This news shocked the world for

Today, the topic of cloning generates more argument then it has ever created before. The controversy over cloning is based, in part, on the fact that there are extreme opposing viewpoints on the subject. Also a major factor in the debate over cloning is a fear of new technology. Throughout history, man has always been slow to adapt to a new technology, or a new way of doing things. We go through all the trouble to adapt to one method, why uproot ourselves and change everything just to do it a different way. This attitude has been evident in the recent past, with inventions such as the automobile and the television. Nuclear power is a prime example of an advanced technology essentially abandoned out of fear. There are very few nuclear

Scientific experimentation has led us to many great discoveries such as: Chemotherapy, heart surgery, and bone marrow transplants. Recently scientists have discovered a new way to heal humans. This is known as cloning. Although they have yet to clone a human they have cloned sheep. Cloning has brought up a huge controversy among the American people. There are two sides to the story. Either you agree with cloning or you don’t. The only way to help make that decision is to look at the good and bad points of cloning.

On July 5, 1996, the most famous sheep in modern history was born. Ian Wilmut and a group of Scottish scientists announced that they had successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly. While Dolly 's birth marked an incredible scientific breakthrough, it also set off questions in the scientific and global community about what -- or who -- might be next to be "duplicated." Cloning sheep and other nonhuman animals seemed more ethically benign to some than potentially cloning people. In response to such concerns in the United States, President Clinton signed a five-year moratorium on federal funding for human cloning the same year of Dolly 's arrival [source: Lamb]. Human cloning has become one of the most debated topics among people in the world regarding the ethical implications. In past polls by TIME magazine (The Ethics of Cloning, 1998), it was shown that 75 percent of the responding population thought that cloning wasn’t a good thing. Furthermore, 74 percent of the respondents believed that cloning was against God’s will, and when asked if they would clone themselves, if presented with the opportunity, 91 percent responded with a “no”. When asked to define human cloning, an estimated 95 percent of them couldn’t describe it correctly. Antagonist of human cloning argue that it is immoral and unethical to clone human beings for both humanitarian and religious reasons. Furthermore, other antagonist describe human cloning as a luxury for wealthy people or as a tool for organ market

With so many unknown secrets about our intricate minds and bodies, the human race stands easily as one of the most extraordinarily complex and mysterious species in the world. Since the beginning of time our race has been evolving with knowledge, constantly searching for a complete understanding of how we function, and how we can improve ourselves. Through various studies, researchers have thought of ways to modify the human body by means of medication, surgical procedures and other processes. One of these methods is through human reproductive cloning. The very prospect of cloning was introduced in the early 1900s, but only recently has made a notable impact on society. It truly is a thing of science fiction; a concept that most of society is familiar with through books and movies, but is not contemplated with much seriousness. But following the numerous successes in the cloning of animals and food that have piqued the interest of the scientific community, debates about the possibility and the ethics of human cloning have been brought about. But the question is: should these kinds of risky experiments be executed on human beings? Although the cloning of humans could potentially be beneficial, particularly to the world of medicine, the various dangers and downsides make cloning an unethical choice for impending scientific research and tests, and should not be practiced in the future.

It is the first success story for the cloned mammal. If genetic engineering cannot be banned or limited, humans will be cloned in the future. Human Cloning is a dangerous research which is unethical. Since ancient times, humans procreate through sexual reproduction, however human cloning is produced in a laboratory by individuals. For Christians, human cloning means the betrayal of God, it should not be accepted.

In recent years, cloning has become the hot topic in science. Cloning is the act of duplicating. To clone, scientist use the embryos to genetically construct an identical animal or human of the subject that the embryos came from. A human has never been cloned before, but an animal was cloned in 1996. The animal that was cloned was a sheep named Dolly. Dolly only lived for six years. Since then scientist have been attempting to improve the amount of information that is known about cloning. Many people support cloning, but the act of cloning is immoral, exploratory, expensive, and should be banned.

In my paper i 'm going to be talking about the importance of cloning, the basics of cloning, and some other interesting facts about cloning not just humans but some animals like Dolly the sheep.I think Cloning is going to help because it helps with cures, it gives us a new way to reproduce, and it finds ways to make the human body better. "In 1997 Scottish scientists created the first cloned mammal, a sheep named Dolly. The cloning of a mammal stimulated debate because technology used to clone a sheep might also be used to clone a human. For the first time, the question of whether human beings should be cloned was seriously discussed (Pg.1 Farrell Courtney).” Does this make any of you people wonder what cloning means and how some things

The supposed benefits of cloning cannot justify the impact it would have on humanity, today’s state of racism, and the value of human life.

Human cloning is a topic surrounded in controversy. There is yet to be an instance of a successfully cloned human, despite several attempts (Cloning Fact Sheet, 2017). Time, money and resources have been spent in these trials, but whether or not we as human beings and God’s children should even be attempting to make carbon copies of another human is an important question. Cloning is wrong ethically and theologically. It is as if humans are intervening in natural creation and playing God, it can develop new diseases and scientific challenges that never before existed and clones would serve very little real purpose in society.