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Cloning

Cloning is the process of creating a genetic duplicate of an individual. Since the February 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly, a sheep cloned by Ian Wilmut, cloning research has increased considerably. Now it is time society must put an end to the debate on human cloning. Scientists are de-coding the last strands of the human DNA, so human cloning will no longer be a possibility; it is a reality that society has the ability to create but the decision to do so is still in our hands. Many arguments can be made for or against human cloning, but the bottom line is that this practice is unethical and would take away individuality and disrupt social values; thus, this procedure is one that the government should ban and society should not accept.

Because the risks of this practice greatly outweigh the benefits, cloning is unethical. There are two ways of cloning that are being used. One ways is therapeutic cloning, which is used mainly to create body parts rather than a whole new human. The other is adult DNA cloning which is how Dolly was created. Adult DNA cloning creates an exact duplicate copy of the original. The technique that produced Dolly the sheep was successful in only 1 out of 277 attempts. If this technique was attem

The creation of genetically engineered groups of people for specific purposes, such as warfare or slavery could be the results of human cloning. Because genetic engineering allows scientists to alter how the human body and brain works, they could potentially create an army of super soldiers for war or a group of subservient peons for slavery. With the technology to clone humans in the wrong hands, it could be catastrophic.

A team at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts had created gaul (a rare endangered ox) named Noah, which died 48 hours later. "I'm very disappointed by his death, as I would be by the death of any living animal. But as a scientist, I'm extremely pleased that we had a live birth," was the response from Philip Damiani, co-creator of Noah.(Young) To be pleased that it only survived for 48 hours is atrocious, and immoral. Such disregard of a life is unacceptable. There are some scientists that used cloning, not as tool to help society, but to be infamous for being the first. Humans are flawed and corrupted, the ability to “play god” should not be in the hands of a single person.

Human cloning would violate a person's individuality and take away a child's identity. Cloned children would see themselves not as a person, but as a mold of their parent. They would be expected to

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