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    even heal the paralyzed can become a reality. It’s sound’s amazing but it comes at a cost. The technology I am talking about is cloning. Although it can have major benefits it is a very controversial matter. Cloning has been done since the 1950’s with mammals. Cloning animals is only a small contribution to the larger matter at hand. This matter is human cloning. Human cloning has been the major controversy, in the sense that is it morally wrong. Some believe that it isn’t a human's right to play God

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    1. Human Cloning is a practice for constructing several replicas of genetically identical organisms or of individual genes. When discussing cloning, there are numerous levels. The first level of cloning being when the DNA is cloned (recombinant DNA technology), the second level being duplication of the single cell (gene cloning), and the third level being the replication of the whole organism (reproductive cloning). The replication of the whole organism is commonly known to be the ethical issue.

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    Animal Cloning Debate A clone is a genetic copy of another living organism –animal, plant or human. Animal cloning is a widely discussed issue in our society today. The question now is whether the Australian government should ban animal cloning. Many opinions are generated from this subject, such as the justifiability of cloning, and how far it should go. Religious views are prevalent, so too are numerous ethical concerns. The issue of whether or not the government should

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    Human Cloning The controversy of human cloning has contemplated the reasons it should or shouldn't be allowed. Human cloning is the reproduction of human cells and tissue by creating a genetical copy artificially. Clones contain original characteristics of the individual or cell. There are many dangerous risks and great benefits to human cloning. Many people have an extraordinary reaction to cloning because it creates all sorts of images. Cloning is a medical breakthrough that can help millions

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    Cloning Pro Life

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    Cloning has been a major question in our minds. While analyzing and talking in depth this topic, it is noticeable that it is not necessary. Many people believe cloning is pro-life because they only see what a biologist desires to show. People are greedy and they just want to get to the next level. They desire to see to what extremity biologist is willing to go. I disagree with this fact that cloning should be legal in the United States. While reading some articles from last year that an English

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    Cloning Ethical Dilemmas

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    Although the idea of cloning in and of itself is not a particularly new idea -- the first animal cloned was in 1997, almost twenty years ago -- in our society today, attention and discussions over human cloning specifically are consistently growing, whether it is in regard to cloning for reproductive purposes, or for research purposes, also known as “therapeutic” cloning. However, there are ethical dilemmas in either case. What I will be discussing in this paper relates to cloning for purposes of biomedical

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    The prospect of human cloning was introduced in February 1997 when an embryologist was able to produce a lamb through the process of cloning. Once the lamb was cloned, the question of whether research for human cloning came into being. Society and researchers have feuded over whether human cloning should be banned or allowed for research and reproduction purposes. Each side has reasonable ideologies to continue their stance towards the opposing argument. Pro- cloners believe that the research developed

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    Cloning Persuasive Speech

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    taxpayer money to fund both therapeutic and reproductive for both animals and humans would benefit many of us. Vote yes on this bill to help support all the people who will eventually need it in their lifetime.Cloning has lots of purposes it helps cure infertility, it can help gay families have kids of their own, It also gives back pets that people have lost before. Cloning is a life changing situation that benefits for the greater. Meanwhile, many people are born or become infertile due to an accident

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    Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning New areas of science often raise questions about safety. Reflecting back on the past medical technologies invented, people have always opposed it but often benefit from it later on in life. The use of in-vitro fertilization, for instance, was once a controversial issue. Some people worried that society could discriminate against humans produced as a result of IVF and humans could spread diseases. Furthermore, its usefulness cannot be predicted because

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    Ethics Of Cloning Essay

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    The first idea of cloning began in 1938, when scientist Hans Spemann had the idea to replace the nucleus of an egg with the nucleus of another cell. Mr. Spemann did this in an attempt to grow a new embryo; however, the experiment was unsuccessful (Copernicus Science Centre). A successful attempt in the field of cloning did not occur until the 1970’s when Scientist John B. Gurdon successfully cloned a frog. However, each clone did not survive passed the stage of a tadpole. Scientist Gurdon was questioned

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