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Ethics Of Cloning Research Paper

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Cloning: Ethical or Unethical?
Imagine this. You are walking down the halls of the school. You keep your head down as people walk by. You slowly go into your first class. The teacher comes around and checks your homework. You don’t have it, you haven’t done it in months. As you walk out of class you think about death. You have cancer and the doctors say it is beyond help. So you are just waiting to die. You know it will be any day now. As you walk down the hallways you see him. He is the most popular, athletic, and smartest kid in school. You see him surrounded by all of his friends. His friends don’t know, but you know. He is a clone, your clone. Your parents are waiting for you to die too. In fact it's almost like you already did. Your parents …show more content…

Amy Coxon from Medical Ethics says “The fact that human beings are created in God's image is repeated throughout Scripture and gives us our innate value. Our value, then, does not come from our contributions to society, as the humanistic worldview touts, but rather from our identity as creatures created in the image of our loving God” which means that the Christian beliefs state that we are all made in God’s image and by cloning we are saying that we can be made by DNA and parts instead of in his image. In Genesis 1:26-27 it is written that “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Brian Caulfield said it perfectly when he said “The biblical view of man as a special creation in the image of God will be deconstructed, and the idea that we are no more than our genes will take life. The soul will grow cold, as fewer and fewer believe that man even has one.” Also by cloning, children aren’t being produced in the way God intended us too. The Christian beliefs state that Children are a gift from God and not something that should be manufactured. Children are supposed to be produced by a husband and a wife and be nurtured by his or her parents (Hollinger). Cloning would make it so kids would just be produced in a lab. What if a whole new race of human was developed not made by God? According to Paul Stark that could just happen. He said that …show more content…

Think back when you first learned not to touch a stove when it is still on. Even though your parents tell you not to touch it and says what will happen, you do it anyway. When you touch it, you scream out in pain. Your parents come and help you and ice the wound. You knew what was going to happen but you had to try it anyway. Which is exactly like “The Economist” says in the article “Reproductive Cloning Is Immoral”. He says “Although mammals have been cloned successfully, the process is still mysterious and riddled with problems. Attempts to clone humans would certainly involve stillbirths and sudden deaths.” The scientists know that cloning will cause deaths but they still want to try it anyway. Just like a child touching a stove, the scientists know little about cloning and the process is still mysterious. People are saying what will happen but the scientists want to try, no matter the consequences. By cloning, it will also mean bringing in identical genes which will weaken our power to adapt to different circumstances, which could put us at a threat of getting a serious disease (Rawat). Through the ages, humans have adapted to survive in different circumstances but by cloning we will no longer have that ability and if we don’t we will not be able to survive different diseases. Cloning is not as simple as it sounds. It takes several clones to be produced until one

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