The Pros And Cons Of Cloning

Why did scientists keep animal cloning a secret for so long? Did the scientists know that animal cloning would cause controversies? Do the bans on animal cloning actually prevent scientists from advancing cloning technology? Did scientists think that their discovery would help or even hurt the food industry? Animal cloning could help the food industry as long as its negatives do not outweigh the positives.

In February 1997, it was announced that Ian Wilmut and other researchers at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, had succeeded in creating the first cloned mammal, a sheep named Dolly. A controversy quickly arose over the moral aspects of cloning, particularly regarding the issue of human cloning. Hardly any researchers have advocated human “reproductive” cloning; rather, they have generally argued for the development of human “therapeutic” cloning, which may someday yield important medical benefits. However, even this type of cloning is controversial, because the process involves the destruction of a human embryo. As this paper will show, there have been many problems and setbacks in the efforts to clone animals. In addition, recent evidence shows that it is probably impossible to clone humans with the current technology because of the way the reproductive cells in primates are designed. Thus, as this paper will argue, despite the concerns that have been expressed over human

There are animals, plants, and possibly humans that have all been cloned before. "Either they have been artificially or naturally cloned" (Stratfor). Scientists are still researching on how to artificially clone humans. The amount of technology in this world, anything is possible. "The first ever artificially cloned animal, was a sheep named dolly" (Stratfor). It took a lot of difficult work for the reproduction. Humans should be cloned for extra body parts. Those extra body parts could save lives. Cloning should be used in this world, so that no animals could go extinct and humans will hopefully be able to be coned in the future.

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.

Human cloning will influence us on what will happen in the future. Will God turn on everyone in society? how will our clone act toward us? and

Scientists have always driven themselves to make new discoveries, and with technology rapidly increasing it is easier to make these discoveries. Sometimes these new discoveries aren’t always accepted or appreciated. One of these discoveries being animal cloning. Animal cloning is one of the most controversial topics in the science world, as of today. Scientist clone animals even though people view it as wrong. Thus making animal cloning highly debated about today and if it should really be used. Many people do not agree with animal cloning, due to their ethical and moral views, which is one reason why animal cloning shouldn’t happen. Another reason is animal exploitation and cruelty, and serious issues can happen with the cloned animals. Like deformities for example. Also, animal cloning’s cost and failure rate is very high. We are wasting our money. Overall, the disadvantages of animal cloning outweigh any of the advantages by a landslide.

In the name of science there are controversial medical advancements that many families and individuals can undergo. This can be seen in many different ways depending on the culture or society of the individual or family. A few of these controversial topics include, cloning humans, STEM cell research, and human embryo enhancement.

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.

A bill has just come up that would allow use of taxpayers money to fund both therapeutic and reproductive cloning and there is way you can help. I have done research on both therapeutic and reproductive cloning of all animals and human and it isn’t something I support personally. I’m not the only one who doesn’t support cloning, there are others who agree with me as well, for example, in the article “What Ever Happened to Cloning?” a director for the Division of genomics and society at the National Institutes of health stated that “people were worried that cloning would be used as a means to harvest organs or to replace people that had died.” Others fear narcissists that would engage the method in erroneous attempts to live forever or for parents to replace children that had died. Kimberly Leonard has said that some of those against to human cloning have argued that in creating a clone in science they are creating a monster. Therefore, many have also tried to ban human cloning in several different countries by passing laws but, some politicians couldn't decide when cloning should be banned. In the article “Politics of Cloning” have stated that the politics of cloning are complex by the matter of stem-cell research. Politicians as well as scientists believe stem-cells will one day be able to cure the dangerous diseases and injuries we have in this world but, they need to see the dangerous it can cause as well, for example, unplanned abortions, deformed children, and

In recent years, cloning has become the hot topic in science. Cloning is the act of duplicating. To clone, scientist use the embryos to genetically construct an identical animal or human of the subject that the embryos came from. A human has never been cloned before, but an animal was cloned in 1996. The animal that was cloned was a sheep named Dolly. Dolly only lived for six years. Since then scientist have been attempting to improve the amount of information that is known about cloning. Many people support cloning, but the act of cloning is immoral, exploratory, expensive, and should be banned.

The aspect of having some living organism to have the same type of genetic information and have the same looks, is kind of a skeptical topic to talk about. It is very much more skeptical when the living organism has the same genes as the other and one of them were not born “by nature”. This phenomenon is called cloning. Cloning creates all types of controversies within the scientists and all the population, for the things that scientist can do with just a little piece of a cell. One of the main controversy that the world has is, why do human beings want to create life instead of having it created by nature. This controversy has always been around since the first organism was cloned. The other controversy that has all the world really worried is, what would happen if a human gets cloned. Cloning has all the world really nervous and concerned because they do not know what might happen if they were to clone a human. The science that goes behind the cloning procedure is very complex and some of the college graduates with a background of biology can perform this procedure. Cloning can have a good effect or a bad effect on society.

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing, or previously existing, human being or growing cloned tissue from that individual (Science Daily). It does not occur naturally. Cloning used to be a subject that would only arise in science fiction novels and movies; now it is one of the most controversial topics today and becoming a reality. Cloning has came up in popular movies such as Star Trek Nemesis and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (“Best Clone Movies”). If human cloning has been featured in movies such as these, what makes this so unacceptable? What’s the harm in having a clone of yourself walking around? Plants and animals have already been successfully cloned (“10 Advantages and”). The next step is… humans. Human cloning violates human rights and morals. “If we fail to ban all forms of human cloning, society’s continued ability to regulate or ban future scientific research will be seriously diminished in the name of autonomy and utilitarianism” (Weldon). Human cloning is unethical and should stay banned.

Many movies portray clones to be the exact same age with same personality as the person who was cloned. However, according to research and science that is not true. The environment in which a clone is brought up can affect their personality. Therefore, if the original person had a passion for music because of their parents influence, then it is not necessarily true that the same could be said about the clone. A clone is defined to be a cell or organism that is genetically indistinguishable to the original cell or organism from which it is acquired (Rogers, 2015). Cloning was introduced in 1903 by Herbert J. Webber, who was an American plant scientist and used cloning in reference to plants that had been assembled through asexual propagation by horticultural methods. “Plants that are propagated asexually, whether from twigs or cuttings of other parts or from bulbs or buds, are exact genetic replicas of their parent plant” (Rogers, 2015). In nature, cloning happens all the time. There are many different topics to cloning other than the subject that began the idea of cloning. Over the years, the topics of human cloning and animal cloning have been discussed bringing debate on ethical issues and whether there are any advantages and disadvantages.

Human cloning is the process that refers to the copying and replicating identical copies of humans using genetic engineering methods. Cloning can help and solve problems such as cloning in medicine, or to clone humans. We are going to look at the human cloning and its pros, cons, how is it done and the ethical issues of human cloning.

Cloning is a useful techniques in producing breed that are genetically identical to valuable adults. The procedure of producing new organism that identical to each other often gave a question a mark whether it should be done or it is prohibited for the human rights and science. Hence, different perspective often come out which the cloning may have advantages that could be used to save life and prolong the life time or it also can cause harm to the organism.