The Cost of Human Cloning: A Threat to Individuality and Diversity

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The Cost of Human Cloning: A Threat to Individuality and Diversity

Have we as a society come too far too fast? This is a very applicable question recently asked by senator Roger Bennett, from Michigan, before the Senate on the topic of human cloning. It is speculated that we as a human race have the technology to make a clone of any given human (Jackson 2). If this is done, at what cost is it done? If cloning is allowed it will come at the cost of misguided effort, the creation of a process known as gene selection, and loss of individuality and diversity.

What cost would there be to make a clone of a human being? One cost can be explored from a monetary standpoint. It is estimated by the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs that it would cost roughly 250 million dollars to produce a human clone (Lackey 1). This would prove to be a truly monumental milestone in human evolution yet, at what cost? Every year in the continent of Africa alone 33 million people perish for sheer lack of food (Lackey 1). These people die because they cannot receive the basic staples of consump...

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