Cloning is when you take one thing and make an exact replica of it. Is cloning right or wrong? This is a question that has been raised by many people in the past few years. Many argue that cloning is wrong because of ethical purposes and its disrespect for humanity. The U.S House of Representatives voted to stop cloning. The penalties for cloning included up to ten years in prison and a $1 million fine to anyone convicted for trying to clone humans. Nevertheless, the U.S Senate never took up the issue, so it did not become a law. The Catholic Church also emphasizes that cloning violates Catholic teaching that life begins at conception. Although all these reasons are acceptable, I believe that cloning should not be viewed as a negative thing because it has advantages that could help a lot of people and animals.
First of all, many people would benefit from therapeutic cloning. Therapeutic cloning is the creation of human embryos used for medical purposes. Researchers protected the progress by saying they wanted to use the cloned embry
Last, there are many unfortunate people out there who can not have babies. Their wishes could come true with cloning. Many couples that are infertile have tried the method of in vitro fertilization to create a baby. This method is frequently very ineffective and only results in a healthy pregnancy ten percent of the time. Cloning on the other hand, would be much more efficient. Although I believe this is a very valid argument it is not very likely that a parent would choose the method of cloning to reproduce a child because of the ethical and emotional factors that come along with it.
Next, some people may argue that cloning is unnatural, but cloning is very much natural. Cloning is natural because some organisms in nature only reproduce using cloning. They do this because it is the only way to improve the genetic stock of species. A shrimp called Artemia perthenogenitica, has survived for at least 30 million years by using cloning. It is also very possible that one day humankind may follow this pattern.
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