Firstly, "Human cloning is a form of cloning which is designed to result in a copy of a human being," this means that the procedures that human cloning contains is specifically designed to result in an exact copy of the human being cloned. ... "Human cloning creates questions about the soul, the role of God in society, and even the quality of life that a cloned person may have." The disadvantages of human cloning are undoubtedly clear. ... "One of the most noticeable is that the cloned child will have exactly the same medical history as their parent clone's." ... Ther...

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How then, knowing of all the drawbacks of human cloning, can we convince scientists to rethink their cloning fantasies and introduce them to the possible dangers and controversies human clones would bring to our society? ... Cloning was first used by scientists in agriculture. ... After the cloning of plants came the cloning of animals which led up to the creation of Dolly, the cloned sheep, in February of 1997 (Heinberg ix). ... One of the most important reasons why human cloning should be banned is the fact that the cloned children would have no emotional ties within the family. ... Is t...

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(Kass, Cloning is Unethical) While this doctor is an advocate of cloning animals, he is not in anyway supporting the cloning of human being. People in the business of cloning animals are even against the cloning of humans, he realizes the detrimental effects of cloning humans. ... Cloning and genetically engineering babies is very selfish and is playing God, so is cloning ones self. ... In past attempts to clone humans, fewer than two or three percent of all cloning attempts have succeeded. ... Cloned cows often have heart and lung problems; cloned mice later develop obesity; other live-born c...

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People that are for cloning talk about how we could possibly bring back historical figures by cloning their DNA. ... For example, if we cloned Babe Ruth, it's not likely the clone would be the best baseball player ever. ... Well if we did clone this historical figure, do you imagine how the media and society would scrutinize and dissect this clone? ... Doctors could clone the person needing the transplant and use the clone's marrow. ... If the couple turns to cloning instead, one parent could just clone himself or herself and the problem no longer exists. ...

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There are non-religious arguments against human cloning that say that cloning doesn't respect human dignity. ... o How could you spot a clone if he was on his own? ... The naturally conceived sister to a clone, could be regarded as the clone's niece. ... o This is a strong argument against cloning becoming an industrial process - with cloned identikit babies growing up on clone farms. ... Cloning is a threat to a person's individuality and uniqueness Cloning is bad because the clone is genetically identical with another person. ...

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To Clone or Not to Clone "On a soft summer night July 5th, 1966, at 5 p.m., the most famous lamb in history entered the world. (Kolata, pg 1) "Many people wonder if this is a miracle for which we can thank God, or an ominous new way to play God ourselves."" (Duff, pg1) Now the question is do we clon...

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In 1993, the First humans were "cloned."" ... The First Human Clone This article deals with the issue of human cloning. ... One method of human cloning is called reproductive cloning- "implanting a cloned embryo into a woman's uterus, leading to the birth of a cloned baby."" ... Some supports of reproductive cloning are trying to get around this by claiming that reproductive cloning is "therapeutic cloning."" ... Their goal was to create a cloned human embryo. ...

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One of the many steppingstones to cloning is genetic engineering. ... My definition of cloning, is the making of an exact replica of a living or dead mammals, scientists in past few years has been experimenting with cloning and in February of 1997 they where finally successful. ... Another question I have is if we do begin to clone how many mistakes will there be before a successful clone is created. ... How will this cloned child cope emotionally with the idea of being a clone, the exact replica of some one who is dead or alive. ... With all these questions stated how could we ever clone ...

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To Clone or not To Clone Although few people agree with cloning, I personally think it is good. In this essay I will present to you two reasons for why cloning is good, and two reasons for why people think cloning is bad. ... Lastly, I will conclude my essay by giving you a final reason why cloning should be done, and why cloning would not be a bad thing to do. ... Cloning would create a better future for everyone. ... So I mean, cloning would be terrific to be able to do. ...

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Cloning is not new. ... Human cloning is a very complicated procedure. ... A second type of cloning is advocated called therapeutic cloning. ... There would be no rejections of cloned organs because they are from cloned from the host donor and therefore be a genetic match. ... This discovery has led cloning skeptics to charge that the clones are far from exact duplicates. ...

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