The Moral Aspect of Cloning
Cloning is not new; experiments with frogs and toads go back to the 1970’ with the experiments concerning animal and plant embryos have been preformed for
many years. But experiments relating to humans have never been tried or considered
possible, until “Dolly” (the first fully grown mammal to be cloned). A “human clone” is
an identical twin of another human being but only at a younger age. Scientist use cloning
techniques in their laboratory to make copies of cells or organisms with a valuable trait.
Their focus aims to find reasonable applications for cloning that will make advances in
medical breakthroughs, and biological research. For the past few years the topic of
cloning has been a very intense argument; human cloning is either “playing God” or (a
scientific process). Even though there is a large amount noted on the ill
outcome of human cloning, it could also be very valuable in our society.
Wouldn’t it be weird if a child were to grow up knowing that her mother is her sister, her grandmother is her mother, and her father was her brother-in-law? This can cause several emotional risks although this type of genetic selection may cause many sever risks. Every time her mother is to look at her, what she sees is herself growing up. There is a lot of emotional pressure on a teenager who is trying to establish his/her identity. What if everyone was to clone? What would happen to our individuality?. Cloning limits your genetic base because there are not enough individuals that would be the base of inherited material for the population. It would also stop the genetic progress since there is no combining of the genetic material and thus no opportunity to produce an animal that is superior to the parent. What if the child knows that he/she is the clone and now the identical twin of a dead sister/brother? What kind of pressure do you think that would put on the child, knowing they were made as a direct replacement for another? This child will not be the same in all ways as the other was, regardless of what the parents were hoping. One important concern is because this child will be brought up in an unusual household where unhappiness has been diverted into making a clone of the dead brother/sister instead of just adjusting to their loss. Now this child will be going through great pressures on his/her emotional...
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...lter the animals’ new traits so that they could resist diseases. Cloning could be performed on animals of all forms (i.e. fishes, poultry), to downsize the chance of spreading food diseases to the human race.
Both sides being scientific and ethnical have both very strong arguments. Yes, there are some risks with trying something new and different. But if people didn’t take risks we wouldn’t be were we are today, there wouldn’t be a cure for Polio, or any other diseases. As we become more knowledgeable we are able to find new cures, and new medicines. It makes us think, are we playing God? Or are we just scientists using the mind God gave us? I do not feel that cloning should just be used on an everyday basis; it should be used in moderation. Even though we would have the skill to “raise the dead” we should still treasure the importance of human life.
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Cloning is a process in which a sequence of DNA is copied. This process happens both naturally, as in identical twins, and can also be created in a lab (Devolder, 2013). The lab created cloning has generated many questions on whether or not it is an ethical practice. This paper will explore what consequentialist, deontological and virtue ethicists’ views are for the moral dilemma of cloning.
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Sally: Yes, it is true that a frog was cloned in 1952, but those scientists used an embryonic cell. Dr. Wilmut used an adult cell.
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