Cloning, especially human cloning attracts increasingly more attention after the first mammal cloning animal Dolly born in 1997. Cloning is divided into two categories: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning is more related to tissue level cloning to transplant healthy cells and reproductive cloning is individual level cloning. Thus, the term cloning in this essay is used to describe both individual level and tissue level cloning. Public have different views. Some people support it because of its medical value, yet some people argue that it may bring many safety risks and moral problems. Hence, decisions ought to be made to identify the extent of cloning. Therefore, this essay introduces two major benefits of human cloning on disease therapy and analysis two arguments against it on safety and ethical issues. Firstly, therapeutic cloning has numerous advantages in curing serious diseases by transplanting healthy cells derived from patient’s own bodies to replace the diseased tissue or organ, as well as medical research. One of the benefits is that it can treat a number of diseases, i.e. cancer, heart disease, burns and Parkinson’s disease. Lindvall (et al., 2011) reports that in 2008, scientists at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have successfully treated mice which had a condition like Parkinson’s disease, with cloned embryonic stem cells injecting to mice’s brains. In addition, this technology can avoid rejection reaction. Camporesi and Bortolotti (2009) explain that if transplanted cells are derived from the patient, as opposed to a donor, the cells will not be attacked by the patient’s immune system as foreign material so that patient will not suffer adverse effects brought by immune-suppr... ... middle of paper ... ...cloning can be divided into two broad category: potential safety risk and moral problems, and these concerns overweigh its achievement. In conclusion, with the development of cloning technology, public have different attitudes towards it. On one hand, serious diseases, like liver cancer, are likely to be cured by transplanting healthy cells and scientists have more access to medical research. It brings hope for infertile families to obtain a baby. On the other hand, it has raised public concerns about security risks due to high failure and malformation rate, and ethical issues about dignity, which are mainly caused by productive cloning. Hence, therapeutic cloning should be enhanced to minimize its potential safety risks in order to be put into clinical application, while reproductive cloning ought to be prohibited worldwide without the agreement on moral issues.
Children grow up watching movies such as Star Wars as well as Gattaca that contain the idea of cloning which usually depicts that society is on the brink of war or something awful is in the midsts but, with todays technology the sci-fi nature of cloning is actually possible. The science of cloning obligates the scientific community to boil the subject down into the basic category of morality pertaining towards cloning both humans as well as animals. While therapeutic cloning does have its moral disagreements towards the use of using the stem cells of humans to medically benefit those with “incomplete” sets of DNA, the benefits of therapeutic cloning outweigh the disagreements indubitably due to the fact that it extends the quality of life for humans.
Even though cloning is a huge step in the future there are many reason, concerns, and questions that need to be answered before they continue the research. There are questions like what’s going to happen, or what are you going to do with clones, or why are clones needed. The main concern is what are they going to do with the clones. Many people think that a clone is exactly like what they are cloning. False it starts off a baby its just like making a baby but in a very hard way which is unnecessary. Yeah it may receive more traits from the cloned human but its not needed. They also can not say they will use them for scientific research or testing because it is a live, breathing, and a HUMAN being. Thats just like taking someone off the streets and doing test on them without consent. This is serious and it should be stopped!
Many people say that everyone in the world has a twin. Today, science and technology has the ability to make this myth reality through the process of cloning. I am strongly against cloning for many reasons. People should not utilize cloning because it would destroy individuality and uniqueness, cause overpopulation, animal cruelty, it is against morals and ethics, and it violates many religious beliefs.
However, they do not bring to light when given fetal brain cells, some sufferers of Parkinson’s disease experience side effects like “head jerking, writhing, constant chewing, twisting, and arm-flailing” (OccupyTheory 5). This occurs because the patient’s body does not accept the foreign tissue of the embryos as their own. Even if the use of embryonic stem cells in Parkinson’s helps with the problems caused by the disease, it cannot cure it. When used to treat sclerosis or cancer, the cells injected into the human will require the use of drugs to prevent rejection from the tissue. Injecting embryonic cells can also cause rapid growth of unwanted tissue, or tumors. In addition to the threat of tumors, the long term side effects of stem cell therapy are still
When people think of the word cloning they think of evil scientist in a dark laboratory’s full of dangerous and scary instruments of science for conducting experiments, when actually the word clone means, “a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived (Dictionary.com).” In the past 50 years the science community has made many discoveries such as the cures for different life threatening diseases, different techniques of approaching different types of cancer, and different uses for the practice of cloning. Different people have many opinions about cloning. Some people in the medical field support the practice of cloning, because they believe it can help cure certain diseases by watching how they develop during the cloning process. But some people in the medical field do not support the practice of cloning, because they feel as if it is just a waste of time, and waste of money. Other people do not support the practice of cloning for religious reasons; because they feel as if things are suppose to live once and if a once living organism is artificially reproduced then it is defying the divine grace of God.
Cloning is defined as the different processes for duplicating biological materials such as tissues and new life forms (“Cloning Fact Sheet” 2009). The cloning of human tissue should be allowed because the fields of medicine benefit from it; however, the full cloning of humans is a mockery of life because it creates a population of people who will not evolve or adapt to changes in the environment. Therefore, the government should financially support the research of therapeutic cloning while condemning the act of reproductive human cloning.
It is normal to think cloning is something out of a science fiction orb. For many years, scientists have been telling the world that it’s impossible to clone humans, but they were all wrong. The technology of cloning humans is already here, as evidenced by Dolly the sheep, but it called forth questions about the role of God in society, the soul and even the quality of life a cloned individual would have (“16 important pros and cons”). Cloning technologies can prove helpful to researchers in genetics. With the history of cloning, one difference to help in mind, with dealing with cloning, is the reproductive cloning or therapeutic cloning.
A growing controversy in the world today is cloning. One stance is that cloning and cloning research should be banned altogether. Another position is in support of no restrictions of cloning and that scientists should be able to test on animals if they deem it necessary. Many other views are squeezed into different gray areas on the topic. It would be beneficial to explore the methods, benefits, moral and ethical conflicts involved with human cloning to fully understand the pros of cloning. The methods of human cloning and the research that accompanies them can provide a great deal of benefits. The benefits of human cloning include important medical breakthroughs, reproduction, and morality issues.
The techniques used in cloning research raise important ethical issues especially concerning the potential use of these techniques in humans. Science has an ethical obligation to present the public with both the benefits and burdens of cloning research, because cloning research could have detrimental effect on humanity. Cloning could be detrimental due to the uncertainty of science and technology and the possibility of extinction of a particular species.
Human cloning has not been created yet, according to Aurelia et al. (2011), 23 countries have made human cloning illegal since 2009. However, human cloning has several benefits, particularly in medical research and treatment; for instance, it can help cure diabetes. Although human cloning can cure diseases and reproduce babies, the risks of human cloning still overweigh the benefits; therefore, it is necessary to have an international and national organisation to monitor the development of this technology. Human cloning, especially therapeutic cloning, is the solution for health problems.
The issue may never be resolved completely, but I believe human cloning should not be allowed at all.
Cloning humans is a threat to our society. It presents a vast number of problems that arise with each new discovery. The first is the decrease in distinct genetic make-up. Cloning also brings up many ethical points dealing with creation and psychological well being of clones. Cloning is such a new area of study that it requires a large amount of money and offers a lot of room for mistakes.
In several recent polls by Cable News Network (CNN) and TIME magazine (The Ethics of Cloning, 1998), it was shown that seventy five percent of the responding population thought that cloning was not a good thing. Furthermore, three quarters of the respondents believed that cloning was against God’s will, and when they were asked that if they are given the opportunity to clone themselves, only seven percent of the people said that they would allow it. However, when asked to define human cloning, an estimated ninety five percent of them could not describe it correctly. Although many people believe that cloning is against the will of God and it is immoral and unethical to clone human beings for both religious and humanitarian reasons, however, human cloning can have many benefits for the human race in terms of helping infertile couples and people with genetic problems. In addition, it can be really helpful for the people who suffer from diseases such as kidney and liver defects or cancer.
Ever since the first cloned mammal, Dolly The Sheep, was created in 1996, the concept of human cloning started to arise (Nardo, 2002). Cloning is a mean of asexual reproduction, which will create a genetically identical organism by copying the DNA of a cell or an individual. By simpler mean, a clone is a duplicate or a copy (Yadav & Sharma, 2011). It is said that human cloning could bring variety of benefits to people including bringing back the deceased, and helping infertile couples. However, human cloning issue is very controversial that up until now, the future of this issue is still uncertain. There are a lot of stumbling blocks in the effort to legalize human cloning. In her book entitled ‘Cloning’, Tina Kafka says that:
...roperty and criminal matters. The greatest ethical issue concerning cloning is that the subject may be unnecessarily harmed, either during experiments or by expectations after birth. Given that this whole technology of cloning is still relatively new, safety issues may arise. As mentioned earlier, it took 227 attempts to produce one healthy Dolly. Furthermore, more deaths and developmental abnormalities have been reported as effect of experimentation. Secondly, at the level of human rights, human cloning may violate two very important principles on which human rights are based on. The first one is the principle of equality between individuals and the second one is the principle of non-discrimination between individuals. Some people worry that clones will be ill-treated and may suffer from mental and emotional problems due to lack of individuality and self autonomy.