From Star Wars to the Jurassic Park movies cloning has always been a science fiction story that was light years ahead of us. But with recent evidence and research to clone living organisms, the far away fantasies of cloning we have been dreaming about for many years is rapidly becoming a reality, even faster than we think. Twenty years ago, in 1997, Dolly the Sheep was the first successful clone to be produced from an adult mammal. In the article “The Coming of Clones” American Scientists announced in 2013 that they had for the first time successfully obtained stem cells from cloned human embryos (the building blocks of cloning life). Due to this announcement and the cloning of Dolly, cloning has become a debatable topic that has both negative …show more content…
On September 27th, 2004 the The Roman Catholic Church announced their teaching on cloning. The Vatican explains that a cloned human is human but has no basis in claiming they are unique from anyone else on the planet. In the article “Document Of the Holy See On Human Cloning” the church says, In the end, a clone is still a human so as a church we must still treat them with dignity. But knowing the society of the world the clone will be treated as if they were replaceable at any time. Humans are naturally unique but when you create a clone, the clone, and even the person being used to make a copy, will no longer have the basis to say they are physically unique and different from anyone else in the world (“Document of the Holy See…” 1). When we clone we are creating an exact physical duplicate. Emotionally and spiritually the clone, and the one being cloned, are not the same person. What the Vatican is concerned about is not that the clone was not created traditionally (one Man and one Woman), but how the clone will be treated in the real world. The church announced that they will always welcome and respect a clone because it is still human, but the world will not. Throughout the clones life, it will be treated with less dignity and many people will have the impression that the clone is replaceable. Even though this clone is human many in society will not always treat a clone in a human way. The Roman Catholics are not the only ones teaching their views on cloning. While many other countries have banned human cloning, the country of Israel continues to wrestle with this issue. Many Jewish leaders have entered the debate so they turned to their religion. Shlomo Brody the author of “Does Jewish Law Support Genetic Cloning?” says that “according to Nahmanides, cloning challenges the perfections of God’s creations and presumes God-like powers” (Brody 2). Essentially cloning
If a person is in a situation in which they may have lost a loved one and are trying to replace them, therefore it is morally wrong for him or her to use reproductive cloning.
There is also doubt whether a human conceived by cloning would be treated the same as others. In a present school situation where bullying is an everyday occurrence, the fact of being a clone may be a factor in being bullied. Cloning also diminishes the clone's possibility of living a life that is in a full sense his or her life. People are likely to always compare the cloned person's performances in life with that of his or her alter ego (Kass 33). Thus human cloning is an invasion of privacy for the human conceived by cloning. We do not have a right to take away the originality of any human - even a clone.
All organisms on this planet evolved from a single cell. That single cell eventually developed into complex organisms with a billion cells. Insects, birds, apes, and the person that sits next to you on the bus every morning, are all very closely related… to you, but what makes a human distinctive from all the other organisms on this planet? Humans are unique in their own way because they have evolved to perform extraordinary and assorted tasks. Humans are meant to have flaws, and they are meant to be diverse, but a relatively new advancement contradicts the definition of being human. For many years the world has had to deal with a controversial topic of cloning. Cloning is an exact, precise copy of an organism (“Cloning”). Even though cloning provides many benefits, human cloning is not ethical because it will cost a tremendous amount of money and time. Cloning will also destroy evolution, and finally each and every human, even a clone, deserves a sense of individuality.
We’ve all seen the movies. A person gets in a tube. The scientist, usually equipped with crazy hair, pushes a few button and a huge flash of light occurs. Two people walk out completely identical. And of course we know movies would never lie to us. The first cloning of a mammal, while not quite the mad scientist scene expected, was still an amazing event. It was a sheep, later named Dolly. One day, in the not so distant future, we can all use these techniques to clone our dearly passed pets or even family members. Dolly was cloned in 1996 using reproductive cloning and since then many things thought unthinkable twenty years ago have been achieved.
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
Many people believe cloning is unethical and unusful. These individuals believe that cloning should not be practiced, because it infringes upon their beliefs. They see cloning as a last resort and do not trust the science of cloning. “Several governments have considered or enacted legislation to slow down, limit or ban cloning experiments outright” (Freudenrich 5). Many people think that cloning a species is a very unideal situation, because it uses loose policies. However the many benefits of cloning far outway the few disadvantages. Cloning endangered species is beneficial to saving most species around the world, in countries like the United States and China,
The science in biology allows us to discuss living things, organisms, and the creation of life. The United States banned all kinds of cloning in 2005, but there is still a curiosity in if it can lead to improvement in human existence. Cloning is about composing an identical organism out of the given DNA and constructing it to appear as natural as it originally did. Experiments and approval for human cloning may be in many years to come and out of reach today. As far as animal cloning, we know to a point it’s safe. If we continued the exploration in genetic replication on species, breeding animals can enable us to provide food for a growing global population, and save endangered species. An article like Dolly the Sheep’s Fellow Clones, Enjoying Their Golden Years, the writer brings attention to cloning as being a possible answer to the problems we harbor
While some believe cloning to be acceptable others feel equally strongly that human cloning is completely wrong. With the state of the science as it is at the moment it would involve hundreds of damaged pregnancies to achieve one single live cloned baby. What is more, all the evidence suggests that clones are unhealthy and often have a number of built-in genetic defects, which lead to premature ageing and death. It would be completely wrong to bring a child into the world knowing that it was extremely likely to be affected by problems like these. The dignity of human life and the genetic uniqueness we all have would be attacked if cloning became commonplace. People might be
In addition, cloning has many disadvantages on society and religion. Cloning is not acceptable in our religion and it is against the ethics that we were raised on, because scientists are taking GOD’s role
Everyday scientists come up with new ideas that can change how humans live. But not all the things scientist came up with are morally right. Usually new ways to do things cause a lot of controversy and debate. Cloning is a great example of a scientific subject that causes debate weather it is morally right or not.
In the summer of 1996, an animal unlike any other was born unto the world. Roughly three feet high and covered in an insulating material, there were countless others that looked nearly identical freely roaming the countryside. But this animal was special; it was precisely identical to one of its brethren. Dolly the sheep was the first ever manmade clone, an exact copy of its genetic donor. In the fifteen years since the birth of Dolly cloning technology has been improving at a steady pace, and now humanity as a whole is at an impasse: human clones. Scientists are very close to being able to clone a human being, but should they? A ban on human cloning issued by the World Health Organization is in place (World Health Organization 1) but it
Before the topic was discussed in class, I had a general idea of what cloning is; however, I did not know that cloning involved a surrogate mother. In my mind, I knew it was a genetic copy of another human being, but I had a stigma behind the lab testing of the person. I thought that they were genetically created inside a lab. I thought cloning was morally permissible before we discussed it in class and, currently, I think it is morally permissible in some cases. I did not take into consideration that people could use clones for harvesting organs, such as in My Sister’s Keeper examples. In this example, the clone is born and raised to help the original being battle a terminal illness; for instance, a bone-marrow transplant or a donated kidney;
Reprodictive Cloning is a matter of asexual reproduction meaning it will be related to you as in a new category of a human. Therapeutic Cloning is a kind of therapy for diseases.Cloning has been around for a long period of time. It first began with plants in the 1800s then it moved uo to the 1960s with small animals. The first mammal,Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1997.Neither reproductive or therapeutic cloning should be legal. If one kind of cloning becomes legal than most likely the other kind would be too. Not everybody would benefit from it, a human embryo is a human being, and regardless of the type, when it does not work it is a loss of a human,animal,or organism.
The first problem that human cloning encounter is it is one of unethical processes because it involves the alteration of the human genetic and human may be harmed, either during experimentation or by expectations after birth. “Cloning, like all science, must be used responsibly. Cloning human is not desirable. But cloning sheep has its uses.”, as quoted by Mary Seller, a member of the Church of England’s Board of Social Responsibility (Amy Logston, 1999). Meaning behind this word are showing us that cloning have both advantages and disadvantages. The concept of cloning is hurting many human sentiments and human believes. “Given the high rates of morbidity and mortality in the cloning of other mammals, we believe that cloning-to-produce-children would be extremely unsafe, and that attempts to produce a cloned child would be highly unethical”, as quoted by the President’s Council on Bioethics. Since human cloning deals with human life, it said to be unethical if people are willing to killed embryo or infant to produce a cloned human and advancing on it. The probability of this process is successful is also small because the technology that being used in this process is still new and risky.
If a random individual were asked twenty years ago if he/she believed that science could clone an animal, most would have given a weird look and responded, “Are you kidding me?” However, that once crazy idea has now become a reality, and with this reality, has come debate after debate about the ethics and morality of cloning. Yet technology has not stopped with just the cloning of animals, but now many scientists are contemplating and are trying to find successful ways to clone human individuals. This idea of human cloning has fueled debate not just in the United States, but also with countries all over the world. I believe that it is not morally and ethically right