Caught In The Organ Draft Analysis

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Picture a world where every baby is born healthy and everyone could live longer and healthier lives. Genetic engineering and cloning would let this almost perfect world to happen. Humans around the world could be free from deadly diseases and dying young. Genetic engineering according to Merriam- Webster, is applied techniques of genetics and biotechnology used to cut up and join together genetic material and especially DNA from one or more species of organism and to introduce the result into an organism in order to change one or more of its characteristics. A clone is defined as a person or thing that appears to be an exact copy of another person or thing. Cloning and genetic engineering will not only help humans, but it will

also help the dying environment around us. Even though cloning and genetic engineering are often perceived as unethical because it is messing with the “natural” human body. Cloning and genetic engineering are actually beneficial to the human race and the environment.
The pros of cloning and genetic engineering are that it allows humans to live longer and healthier lives. Every day in hospitals people die because they did not receive a specific organ in time or the organ they needed was not available. Cloning important organs are beneficial to these patients, so we can give them a chance to live. Also using genetic engineering, doctors could find deadly diseases in babies before they were born and could easily genetically engineer the baby’s DNA to make the baby healthy once again. Making the decision to save your baby’s life, your family member’s life, or your life should be as easy as 123. Using both cloning and genetic engineering, the whole human race would live longer and healthier lives. Another pro of cloning is helping the animals in our environment, “Cloning could also be used to augment the number of members of an endangered species to that critical level necessary for group survival” (Gaylin 222). Cloning almost extinct animals like polar bears could give them a better chance of survival on Earth. Also, using genetic engineering we could fabricate these polar bears to be faster and stronger to ensure their survival. Also, another pro of genetic engineering is being able to manipulate everyday food to the best possible genetic strain of that type of food. For example, we could genetically modify each chicken’s DNA strain to create chickens that are healthier for us to consume and take out any harmful diseases chickens may carry and transfer to humans. With the help of genetic engineering and cloning our world, our environment, our food, our babies, our families will be healthier.
The cons of genetic engineering and cloning is people would live too long and some people might find cloning as unethical.

If people lived for over a hundred years, they would be no change in the political office. In the story, Caught in the Organ Draft, there is a world where people are drafted to donate their organs to ensure the elders live longer and healthier lives. Since the younger people are forced to donate to the elders, “... We could hope that our crazy old leaders would die off or at least retire for reasons of health, stumbling away to their country villas with ulcers or shingles or scabies or scruples and allowing the new young peacemakers to take office. But now they just go on and on, immortal and insane, our senators, our cabinet members, our generals, our planners” (Silverburg 3). With the cloning of different organs, people may almost become immortal and evil leaders that run countries may never die out. The world may overpopulate and run out of resources to support everyone on Earth. Also, some people may say that cloning is unethical because it messes with the natural body or God’s “will”. In the article, Gayin, the author, proposes an important question, “And if we do attempt human cloning, what will we do with the “debris”, the discarded messes along the line? (Gaylin 224). The “debris” refers to the failed cloning attempts of cloning human body parts. Since they are human parts, would it be murder if we killed them? Many people argue that cloning is unethical because scientists would be obligated kill the messed up clones since nobody has perfected the art of cloning. Also, people argue it’s unethical because scientists are simply messing with the “will” of

god.
In conclusion, the line that we should not cross is making an exact clone of a human being. Scientists should only be allowed to clone human organs or body parts. Also, people should not be offered human clones to replace their place in the world so they can run away from their everyday lives. Genetic engineering also should not be used to modify adults and kids to be faster and stronger. Scientists should only use genetic engineering and cloning of humans for deadly health conditions only. Many people find genetic engineering and cloning to be unethical, but the countless pros of cloning and genetic engineering is too beneficial to the human race to pass up.