Human Cloning: A Benefit to Humanity

What would you think if you were to able to talk to an exact clone of yourself? Most people think that cloning is part of science fiction but can be done and in June of 1997, scientists in Scotland were successfully able to clone a sheep. This major step in cloning raised question in the scientific world. Many people ask is cloning ethical to humanity? To some people, being able to clone is like “playing God”. To me, is beneficiary to humanity if used in a manner to help, not harm.

Statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association show that 8.8 people die in death per every on one thousand in the U.S. population, with the population at over two hundred billion to date. If cloning were introduced in to society, I feel that the death rate would slowly decrease. If cloning were used for medical purposes, scientist would be able to create healthy lungs for cancer patients, or new hearts for heart patients, which would drastically reduce waiting lists for people who need vital organ transplants to live.

Cloning could also be used to help us understand thing about the human body that cannot be solve by modern scientists. Cloning can enable scientists to understand why nervous cells, unlike the others in the human body, don’t multiply. This is very important if nerve cells could be multiplied and would eventually be possible to enable paralyzed people who have suffered a fractured spinal cord to walk again. Cloning individual human cells could lead to the vaccines and cur...