Cloning - Experimentation Critique

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Cloning has become a new science that is more realistic today than it would have been 20 years ago. Cloning is when the production of identical cells or organisms has derived from one single individual. There are two different ways cloning can be done, these are explaining further along. Cloning raises many questions based on “can we do this?” and “should we do this?” There have been many issues with folks being undetermined if they should go with or against the idea of cloning. Technological and ethical issues have arisen since this cloning has entered our society. Most folks only seen and heard of cloning in scary movies or sci-fi movies, but in today’s technological world, this is possible. "It is much in the news. The public has been bombarded with newspaper articles, magazine stories, books, television shows, and movies as well as cartoons”, writes Robert McKinnell, the author of Cloning: A Biologist Report.

One way to clone is by splitting an embryo into two, which then creates new persons from that one embryo. Another way to clone is by cloning a human being! This means taking human cells from a living human and cloning them the same way like stated above. Taking the embryo and splitting into halves.

In 1993, at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington D.C., is when the first embryos were split to try and create human cloning. Dr. Jerry Hall was the responsible party for experimenting with the possibility of cloning a human. He realized quickly that cloning could not be done today, but it could in the future. Shannon Brownlee of U.S. News & World Report writes, "Hall and other scientists split single humans’ embryos into identical copies, a technology that opens a Pandora's box of ethical questions ...

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...loning is it can provide scientist with more information on human development, genetically modifying embryos, and investigation new transplant technologies. Research for cloning will still remain active, even if there are protesters. All one can do is education themselves on the matter and decide what side of the fence they want to be on.

References:

Shannon Brownlee (10-31-93) Send in the Clones. Retrieved on March 27, 2009 from http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/931108/archive_016052.htm.

McCormick, Richard A. (1994). Blastomere separation: Some concerns. The Hastings Center Report, 24(2), 14-6. Retrieved March 30, 2009, from Research Library database. (Document ID: 1659472).

Barbara Enrenreich (11/22/93) The Economics of Cloning. Retrieved March 28, 2009 from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979642,00.html.

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