... see for example Time , March 10, 1997). There is a greater tolerance for cloning animals to serve human purposes. However, some groups oppose animal cloning for moral reasons. Many others have called for caution and a careful consideration of the ethical ramifications of cloning. Others claim that you ... lead to new medical treatments for some humans. Despite the focus on the ethics of human cloning, there are ethical questions surrounding animal cloning that should be explored. Western cultural traditions seem to believe that our treatment of animals should be guided by different ethi...

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... are needed by humans could be artificially produced by animals through cloning and genetic engineering. Genes from humans that produce necessary proteins, for example, could be included in animal DNA so that the animal would produce that protein in its milk or blood. The protein could then be extracted and used in human treatments of various diseases or disorders. Another case for ... cloning are less obvious, but nonetheless, very plausible. In addition to physical harms, there are worries about the psychological harms on cloned human children. Some are concerned of the moral rights of...

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... should be treated by three different moral laws: "1. A human clone is a human being no less unique in his or her personhood than an identical twin. 2. A human clone has all the rights and privileges that accompany this legal and moral status. 3. A human clone is to be accorded the dignity and respect due any member of our species- (par. 2). These are a fine set ... . Aside from moral issues there are many medical reasons to not clone human beings. Major medical issues can occur within the mother and the gestating clone. The current state of animal cloning has resulted in very high occurr...

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... to our society as a whole. It's wrong to have a human clone. What about identity? Humans are guaranteed the right to their own personality. What would happen if we overrode those rights by giving them someone else's genetic identity? True, personality is not enclosed in someone's genes, but the clone would share any physical appearance or genetic defect of the cloned. Also ... , there is a large power struggle here. Cloning involves a degree of power and control over another person's physical identity and that violates their rights and degrades their unique individuality. The person doin...

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... named Dolly from an adult sheep. Dolly was created by replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder. While plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher animals ... identical twins. However, despite how many or how few individual characteristics twins have in common, they are different people. They have their own identities, their own thoughts, and their own rights. They enter different occupatio...

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On February 22, 1996, Ian Wilmut brought cloning of animals to our attention, when the first animal was successfully cloned, on that history-making day the cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Wilmut took a cell from the udder of a six-year -old ewe and sparked a jolt of ... to clone someone if you need a liver, heart, etc it you needed a transplant; it would be a definite match. But is the clone a person? Yes, so they should have the same rights as we do. They are human and we cannot use them for organs then just through them in the garbage. And God forbid if ever legalized the high price wou...

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... a lamb with identical DNA) proved to be successful. These concerns have had little to do with the cloned sheep Dolly or even how cloning may have an impact on the animal breeding industry, but rather about the possibility of cloning humans. For the most part, the ethical concerns presented are very inaccurate and exaggerated due to the fact that most people ... needs an organ transplant later in life. This disturbing possibility would be very unlikely to occur because the clone produced would still be a human being and would have all the rights that a human being deserves. Cloning would...

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