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Is Human Cloning Ethical?

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Is Human Cloning Ethical?

Imagine that you have just been diagnosed with lung cancer. You have been told you have six months to live unless you can find two replacement lungs. But, you are told and realize you are a clone and have to give your life to save another. Is that ethically right? Would you, the original human want to do it? I feel that cloning human beings is ethically and morally wrong. Cloning seems to be a big issue in the world today. The issues of cloning became a reality in 1997. On February 27, 1997, it was reported that scientist produced the first clone of an adult sheep, attracting international attention and raising questions of whether cloning should take place. Within days, the …show more content…

The third is it impacts on societal relations. The fourth and final is the potential effects on the human gene pool. The Americans and cloning experts just don’t know the harms that will come from cloning.
Some people say limit cloning of humans to just research or for medical reasons, but it’s the same thing. Producing clones for research or to use their parts is unethical. Cloning for just medical research is still harming another human being to save another. That is wrong in my mind, ethically and morally. Its ethically wrong because I fell that a humans morals aren’t to kill other human for body parts. It’s morally wrong because it’s not the right conduct of a human to do such a thing. Even if cloning is limited to medical research, there is still the risk of cloning humans. We simply cannot play God and create life because it is ethically wrong and sinful, and most importantly, dangerous. It would be against the code of ethics of a doctor to harm a clone. Harming a clone would be such using one of its organs to save the original life. The question shakes us all to our very souls. For humans to consider the cloning of one another forces them all to question the very concepts of right and wrong that makes them all human. The cloning of any species, whether they be human or non-human, is ethically wrong. The clone would be a human being and deserve

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