Pros And Cons Of Cloning

There have been recent studies on animals where the scientist cloned the animals. Cloning is something many people are split on. Some say it is bad some say it is good. I think cloning is a bad thing. Cloning can be a bad thing in many ways. I will be covering some of those ways in this paper.

There are many arguments against cloning. Leon R. Kass bases his argument on repugnance in his article The Wisdom of Repugnance. He is a well-known physician, educator and scientist. Kass perceives cloning as offensive, grotesque revolting, repulsive and wrong. To establish his argument he states, “Most people recoil from the prospect of mass production or human being, with large clones of look-alikes, compromised in their individuality.”1 His rationale is cloning is unnatural, because it is asexual and requires only one parent. Kass believes that cloning turns natural procreation into a manufactured process, which is not natural or moral. In his essay he also points out that cloning will also change the way we see ourselves through our

Cloning is the process of replicating an identical copy of cells and or body parts and it can go as far as even a whole organism. Cloning has been a very debatable subject of matter for many years and it will for many more to come. Cloning was first established in 1885 with a demonstration with artificial embryo twinning. Cloning eventual became more complex and from there it stemmed off and cloning of animals was possible. Dolly the sheep was the first example of cloning of animals in July 5, 1996. Another area cloning stemmed off to stem cell research which was first discovered in Germany by a biologist Ernst Haeckel. There are many forms of cloning such as full on cloning of an animal. Another part of cloning is replicating organs

The young couple sat in the waiting room of the doctor's office with their heads hung low. They mumbled between themselves, wondering what the doctor would say at this visit. It is their ump-teenth check-up to try and figure out why they have not been able to conceive a child for the past 5 years. The woman wants with all of her heart to give birth to a child of her very own. They wondered if the doctor could do anything else to help them. Would the dream of having a baby of the couple's own blood vanish? Would the doctor have any other suggestions? Is this the end of their rope, or is there another option?

Animal cloning causes ethical issues about how far science should be allowed to interfere with reproduction. Animal cloning is a dangerous and harmful process for both the cloned animal and the surrogate mother. The intrusive procedures that the surrogate mother goes through to prepare her body to carry the clone and for artificial insemination are so painful that the United Kingdom requires an anesthetic to be given during the procedures. Clones have increased medical issues compared to the parent cells. The mortality rate for clones compared to non-cloned animals are extremely high and if the clone manages to survive it is often riddled with health problems. One of the scientist involved with the creation of Dolly, the first cloned mammal from an adult cell, confesses, “Even if you use the same method as consistently as you can, you may get some clones with severe abnormalities and some that have only minor ones.” Common medical problem among clones are an underdeveloped or faulty immune system, which can lead to problems like heart failure, pneumonia, respiratory problems, and lethargy. Another health concern for clones is the possibility of premature aging especially in animals cloned from adult parent cells. Scientist raise the question rather the cloned animals age starts at birth or the age at which the cell sample was taken from the parent cell. Currently scientist have not been able to determine an answer on the age of animals cloned from a parent cell, but many scientists believe after studying the clones x chromosomes and telomeres that the age of the parent cell does affect the lifespan of the clone. The medical problems that cause both the surrogate mother and the clone suffering and often death goes against the Principle of Autonomy of nonmaleficence, do no harm. There is no ethical justification for cloning animals.

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").

A clone is where two organisms share the same exact DNA. These two organisms are the same identical replica of each other. In the past, cloning has taken place naturally. For instance, a couple who naturally conceived and gave birth to identical twins or triplets. Today, science and technology has been introduced to where cloning can intentionally be done. Some people see this type of science and technology of cloning as beneficial to society whereas other people find this type of procedure to be inhumane and not beneficial for any purposes. Science has the ethical obligation to present to the public both the

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After examining three articles called Arguments for and Against Creating Human Clones, President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban, and All the Reasons to Clone Human Beings, I have decided to go against cloning since it’s never right to substitute something or someone that you care about. Cloning abolishes every ounce of consciousness because if you have a duplicate of an animal or an individual living with you then what will usually come to perception is nothing but pure remorse or a lot of grief. After a while that awareness is going to transition you and it’ll crack you from within knowing that this isn’t the legitimate animal or human that was evoked. Along with, it can revision you because if for some unhinged reason, you’re ok with a cloned mortal or a cloned mammalian living with you without perfecting the idea that it’s not going to work out with you then you’ll soon accept the full understanding that the duplicate was always the prime. Afterwards, you will start creating so called “memories” with something that was never the real deal. There’s frequent reasons to go against cloning since it causes a lot of uncomfortable moments.

Human cloning Is when a genetically identical copy of a human is created, this is called artificial human cloning while there are other types of human cloning like natural cloning with in twins. (therapeutic cloning) – (reproductive cloning). Human cloning could be used for great things like if there was a bad cell taking over the body and you could create a lot of good cells to overrun the bad cells, this field of biotechnology is good for things like treating bad cells, and making human life spans longer, while there are bad things in this field such as said by Wolf Reik “It could mean you age far more quickly”, and that their stage in this field is giving uncertain results and before they can put it in large scale they need to make it exact. Human cloning is from of asexual reproduction. A child made by this technique would be he genetic duplicate of an existing person. If a person cloned them self the ending result would neither be their brother their sister or even their twin it would be a new category of human, such as your clone.

What exactly is wrong with human cloning? Cloning is the method or processes that can be used to produce genetically identical organisms or creation of identical copies. The cloned organisms are the same as their original. There are two main types of cloning the one is therapeutic and second is reproductive cloning. The standard kind of cloning is reproductive cloning; it is an asexual means of reproduction by which genetically identical copies of organisms created. Many plants can do naturally reproductive cloning. Also, now scientists can artificially recreate the reproductive technique in animals and even human. Therapeutic cloning is the production of embryonic stem cell for use in repairing damaged organs. Therapeutic cloning achieved by transferring a diploid nucleus from a body cell into an egg and egg nucleus removed.

Human cloning offers medical benefits, as well as other possible technological advances in many areas of science, however, the ethical issues are far greater than these benefits. I fully support cloning in any other aspect other than human cloning. The idea of cloning of a human, taking the DNA of one person and placing it into an egg whose nucleus has been removed then stimulating it to act like it has been fertilized, I do not feel to be unethical. I am not someone who feels that human cloning is playing God. If I was, would I then feel that artificial insemination or invitro fertilization is playing God? My position is that the results and consequences of researching cloning, perfecting cloning, and the inappropriate, inevitable situations for which human cloning will be used are not only unethical, but also atrocious.

I am Arianna Hernandez and I would like to discuss the topic in cloning.There are a articles stating that human cloning is a terrible idea and the negative effects that come with it. As well as against, there are some articles state that human cloning is a great idea and that we should make continue with the cloning. Saying at how it would be beneficial to the society. There are a whole lot of evidence saying otherwise. The articles that I would be writing about will be “Arguments For and Against Creating Human Clones.” As well as “President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban”, and even “What Ever Happened to Cloning?” The last article that I would be using would be “All Reasons to CLone Human Beings,” to show you all of the benefits that is has. Cloning humans should not be allowed because it isn’t the best idea.

The focus of this paper is to determine if cloning is a major breakthrough in scientific research. Many aspects of cloning are explored, to make an informed conclusion with proper justification. Starting with an overview of cloning and the techniques used to clone. Followed by a famous and controversial example of animal cloning. Then a breakdown of the pros and cons of cloning, cloned animals in the recent past and discussing the future of animal cloning. Concluding by considering the importance of cloning, to evaluate the impact it has on science.

At least 95% of mammalian cloning experiment have resulted in failure in form of miscarriages, stillbirths, and also life threatening anomalies ("Reproductive Cloning Arguments Pro and Con")