Is Human Cloning Ethical or Not?

Imagine if you lived in a world where everyone was the same and had no physical differences. Everyone would have the exact same DNA. There would be no diversity within the population. If we continue to clone then this may be a possibility for the future. As of now there have been no cloned humans, but we are not too far away from being able to do so. Scientists have been cloning since as early as 1886, and have been cloning animals since 1996 with the birth of Dolly the sheep. Dolly the sheep was created by using reproductive cloning which is used to produce copies of whole animals (Cloning Fact Sheet NHGRI). Furthermore, there are two other types of cloning; therapeutic cloning and gene cloning. Therapeutic cloning is used to produce embryonic stem cells for medical research (Cloning Fact Sheet NHGRI). Gene cloning is used to produce copies of genes or segments of DNA (Cloning Fact Sheet NHGRI). Cloning should not be allowed because it is inhumane and unethical, results in more failure than it does results, and is unfeasible.

Six years ago, an event in genetic history changed our perspective on "reproduction" and added to our conscience a new element in the study of biology. On February 23, 1997, the world was introduced to Dolly, a 6-month-old lamb that was cloned from a single cell taken from the tissue of an adult donor. Ever since the birth of this sheep, a question that never before existed now lingers in the mind of many: should human cloning be a part of our society?

Human Cloning could be found as unethical to many people. In “The Question of Human Cloning.”, John A. Robertson addresses the hypothetical scenario of cloned human embryos being put up for sale (2). This would inevitably stop inherent uniqueness and dignity of individuals and create unrealistic parent expectations for their children; these embryos would be created and sold for genetic desirability. There is also the concern of cloned embryos used for future “spare parts” (Elmer-Dewitt, 3). Cloned embryos could be born just for the use of being used to give things needed by someone else; for example if someone was to need a heart transplant a cloned embryo could be born and they would use the heart of the clone, but if clones were to be seen as any other human would that be considered the murder of an innocent life. In “Cloning Where do we Draw the Line.” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt

Cloning is a number of processes that are used to create genetically identical copies of an organism. Researchers have cloned a number of biological materials, such as genes, cells, tissues and whole organisms, including sheep 's and horses. Cloning can happen naturally in identical twins, but it can also be done in a lab. ("Cloning Fact Sheet").

Human cloning is described as “the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human.” Although human cloning has no record of being successful, cloning was demonstrated to be possible when scientists Sir Ian Wilmut and the rest of their research team successfully cloned Dolly, a sheep (Wilmut 12). This demonstration opened up a new area of science ready to be explored. If animals can be cloned, can human beings be cloned too? If successful, scientists would be able to clone human copies and further advance modern medicine, such as using cells for regenerative medicine or harvesting organs for transplants. It is also possible that other fields of medicine and research can be furthered with this supply of human clones. Additionally, couples incapable of reproducing can pursue cloning to create an offspring with their DNA. However, human cloning has never been successful and comes with ethical concerns.The clone can suffer from abnormalities. There are also concerns regarding the treatment of embryos to gather stem cells and the treatment of clones as a person. By further investigating and analyzing this topic through the lens of Catholic moral tradition, I hope to make clear the pros and cons of the subject while also evaluating them with an ethical theory learned from this quarter in order to add to the discussion.

The act of cloning a human being comes dangerously close to human beings acting as God. Do human beings have the right to tamper with nature in this way? This essay explores the various ethical issues related to the cloning debate, and seeks answers to this deep philosophical question at the heart of bioethics. As a student of genetic biology and future biologist, this question also has personal relevance. Our science is evolving at a rapid pace. As human cloning becomes increasingly possible, it is important that we analyze the ethics of cloning so that judicious public policy can be created. It is therefore my position that research into cloning should continue to fulfill the fundamental goals of scientific exploration and to explore the possibilities that cloning might have in terms of benefitting human society; on the other hand, there are certainly ethical limits to the practice of cloning. It is important to define those ethical limits, so that scientists understand the best ways to proceed.

As mentioned earlier, cloning is the copying of an organism that results in identical offspring (“Cloning”). Scientists have tried cloning many times on frogs and other organisms (“Cloning”), but when the first mammal to be cloned was successful in 1997, scientists jumped into pools of thoughts to clone humans. The first mammal to be cloned was a sheep named Dolly. The process of cloning Dolly was called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer. The nucleus of a somatic stem cell is taken out of the eggs of the

In the creation of technological advances that survives today, the dispute of cloning is ever existent as a debate of morals and human rights. People are asking if we have the right to clone humans and other animals. Cloning, the process of taking a cell from one organism, taking a donor womb cell from another organism of the same species, inserting the original cell in the donor cell, and placing the newly developed embryo inside a surrogate mother. This is an inhumane desecration of human rights and an obscene act against the natural balance of life. There are those who think that cloning is a brilliant idea and that it is tolerable to create life from an individual which already exists. Those in support of cloning have countless reasons for their opinion. They say that clones and cloning can be used for medical and research purposes, that clones are capable of populating our military. Another reason for cloning is to replace a deceased child or pet, or to enable infertile couples to have children. But these people in support of cloning seem to ignore one key factor that makes this act a violation of nature. All living human beings have feelings and thoughts, and that also includes clones. Cloning belittles the individualities each person and animals acquires, and many consider it an ethical injustice.

As mentioned earlier Dolly is the most famous of the cloned organisms, but there were many before and after her. In 1952 a tadpole was cloned, the first clone ever. (Human Genome Project) Dolly was the first mammal ever cloned. After Dolly other animals such as sheep, goats, cows, mice, pigs, cats, rabbits, and a guar have been cloned. Some animals are more resistant to the procedure used for cloning. The process used is called somatic cell nuclear transfer. This process is used to create an animal that has the same nuclear DNA as another animal. They are not identical in the strictest sense the mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA comes from the egg. The “acquired mutations found in the mitochondrial DNA are believed to play an important role in the aging process.”(Human Genome Project) The process starts by removing all the genetic information from an unfertilized egg with an extremely small needle. Then an adult cell is taken from the donor. The genetic material is removed from the cell and implanted in the now empty embryo. Then the cell is treated with chemicals or an electric current to cause it to start to divide. Once it reaches a certain size it is implanted into a host uterus where it

Cloning have become more complex since technologies for reproducing mammals. In 1997, the first sheep

Cloning is an individual grown from a single somatic cell or cell nucleus and genetically identical to it. Cloning should not be permitted or continued to be studied here in the United States or even in other nations, because aging faster, interference with nature and religious ethics, reduces individuality, failed attempts, and degrading organs.

Science today is developing at warp speed. We have the capability to do many things, which include the cloning of actual humans! First you may ask what a clone is? A clone is a group of cells or organisms, which are genetically identical, and have all been produced from the same original cell. There are three main types of cloning, two of which aim to produce live cloned offspring and one, which simply aims to produce stem cells and then human organs. These three are: reproductive cloning, embryo cloning and therapeutic cloning. The goal of therapeutic cloning is to produce a healthy copy of a sick person's tissue or organ for transplant, and the goal of both reproductive cloning and embryo cloning is to

Dolly was cloned "using cells from the mammary glands of an adult sheep and an egg cell from which the nucleus had been removed" (Petechuk). Dolly took 277 tries to get her right. Many people question if Dolly could be called a real living animal. I think she proved many people wrong when she gave birth to healthy babies (Aldridge). Even though Dolly was a huge success and a big step forward in cloning science, she did die young. Her chromosomes were shorter than the average sheep. Cloning in animals can also cause diseases (Petechuk). After Dolly, cloning has done some miracles like bringing back an extinct species called the Ibex. The Ibex was a mountain goat from Spain. Scientists saved skin from the goat and cloned it. It died shortly after birth (LaPensee). So animal cloning as you can see has not been perfected but still is improving every

Human cloning is the genetically identical copy of a human. Human cloning has a history of not going as planned and ending up with a lot of death. However, They can also be a huge benefit to our society. It depends on how much people know about human cloning, and how developed human cloning is at the time.

Cloning is the process of making genetically identical organisms through nonsexual means. Researchers have cloned genes, tissues and even entire organisms. The National Human Genome Research Institute is who mainly does the gene cloning, they have not cloned mammals and they do not clone humans. There has been attempts of cloning a human being, but has it ever been done? Animals have been cloned already,and plants normally clone themselves. There are three types of artificial cloning: gene cloning, reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning. Gene cloning produces copies of genes and segments of DNA. The reproductive cloning creates clones of a whole animals. Therapeutic cloning makes embryonic stem cells for experiments aimed at producing