Persuasive Letter Human Cloning

I would like to introduce myself as Nimrat Grewal. I am composing this letter to examine the issues about cloning mostly focusing on Human cloning as well as talking a little bit about Animal cloning. Cloning is a form of reproduction in which offspring result not from the chance union of egg and sperm (sexual reproduction) but from the deliberate replication of the genetic makeup of another single individual (asexual reproduction) (“Issue…”). Human cloning, therefore, is the asexual production of a new human organism that is, at all stages of development, genetically virtually identical to a currently existing or previously existing human being.

According to research by Science Daily, “Human Cloning is generally used to refer to artificial

human cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction” (“Human…”). Today, many people can debate against it or for it depending on their point of view or perspective about cloning. There are those who think that Cloning is a perfect way to get someone back but the reality is that it actually not the right way to get someone back. I am personally against human cloning because it just does not sound right to me. But, the debatable topic comes in when many people stand for this issue.

Cloning could work to change lives and improve them but but it not morally right to clone humans or animals either. For instance, for a person who miss their beloved ones whom they lost a couple months ago, looking at an exact same human being like the one they lost, gives them happiness. But they do not understand that the cloned human does not have anything like their beloved ones but just the looks. They get emotional and go with flow. “However undramatic it may sound, the relationship between an "original" and a clone is rather like that between identical twins raised apart; they share all the same DNA, but little of the same environment” (“Issue…”).

Dolly the sheep may have been the world's most famous clone, but she was not the first.

Many animals - including frogs, mice, sheep, and cows - had been cloned before Dolly. “Dolly the sheep was born in 1997: They take the nucleus of a cell from the original animal and inject it into an egg whose own nucleus has been removed”(Said Para 35) “From 277 cell fusions, 29 early embryos developed and were implanted into 13 surrogate mothers. But only one pregnancy went to full term, and the 6.6kg Finn Dorset lamb 6LLS (alias Dolly) was born after 148 days” (“Areas…”). Many other animals just like Dolly are cloned today and no one really cares because they are animals and do not matter. But the truth is that any living being is precious including plants as they breath just like humans do and hence they should not be cloned for experiments or any other kind of benefits.

With everything taken into account, cloning is not something that an individual shall do. Your decision about cloning matters and now you must decide if cloning is a good or bad idea? I do hope you make the decision of making cloning illegal for animals as well as humans. It is a matter of ethical and moral issues. It does not make a difference if it is an embryo or not, murdering it is not right and should not even be

considered.