Animal cloning Animal cloning can be done at two different stages; these are embryo cloning and adult cloning. ... Then once the new animals are born they will be genetically identical. ... Then when the new animal is born it will be identical to sheep 1. ... Advantages- Select only the best animals to survive i.e. best milk producing cows Clone lab animals to make fair tests. Disadvantages- Reduction of genetic variation Herd susceptible to same diseases Unknown long term affects of cloning Premature ageing There are many ethical issues involved with cloning and m...

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Ethical Positions on Animal Cloning Science and human values often clash. ... There is a greater tolerance for cloning animals to serve human purposes. However, some groups oppose animal cloning for moral reasons. ... The prevailing perspective is that it is morally permissible to use animals in scientific research if the research can be shown to benefit humans or other animals. ... This "animal rights" perspective holds that animals experience pain and have human, or human like, emotions and thus should not be subjected to experimentations that can lead to confinement, pain and suffering, ...

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""You"d have to be crazy not to see the bad results they've had in animals," Randolfe Wicker, founder of the Clone Rights United Front, a group in New York City that promotes human cloning says. ... That's the question posed by outraged cloning researchers, who point to an abundance of evidence that cloning adult animals both endangers the mother and can lead to unacceptable defects in the offspring (Boyce 42). ... Much of the previous practice on animals has been disastrous and unexpected. ...

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Wilmut used a lamb to accomplish the first attempt to reproduce a clone from an adult animal, which he called Dolly. ... When taking human cloning into consideration, would a clone have the same rights and obligations as a human? ... Human cloning can have many benefits such as researching medical breakthroughs and using animals to produce organs. ... Additionally, the process of cloning can lead to breakthroughs that give animals the capability to produce organs for humans. For example, cloning technology would allow scientists to create animals which would produce organs for transplants....

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The argument of many scientists around the world is that they"re research is helping and even saving lives of animals. ... What world is this where animals can be cloned to be just like another? ... I find this research and development dangerous for the sake of individuality and the rights of nature. ... You can't take away scientists" rights once they've started. ...

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There are many positive uses for animal and human cloning. First for animal cloning we could grow human organs that we could use for transplant. ... Another use of animal cloning would be done by inserting a human gene into a cell and then performing nuclear transplantation we could get animal that is born with factor IX. ... Everything that has a good side to it has a bad including animal and human cloning. ... A cloned person could have fewer rights and a weakened sense of individuality. ...

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From their side of the fence, this embryo is a human being and has all the same rights as a fully developed life-form. ... There are some who feel embryos shouldn't be created at all and then there are others who want the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to be given to these small undeveloped creatures. ... According to research by George Post, the chief science and technology officer of SmithKline Beecham, and William Pitt Fellow of Pembroke college, Cambridge, we learn that "the genes of specialized adult cells can be reprogrammed to re-express the genetic inform...

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Scientist have successfully cloned different kinds of animals but the animals that were cloned tend to have health issues and shorter life spans. ... You can clone endangered animals to save a certain type of species) (Quinonez). ... It requires time and "Cloning could help reduce the time needed to make a transgenic animal model, and the result would be a population of genetically identical animals for study" ("Why Cloning"). ... The government feels safer doing cloning on animals instead of humans. ... Atheism view cloning as a freedom of their personal rights or beliefs ...

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However, others would argue that animal rights are violated when doing research and testing on animals. ... It has been successfully carried out for years on many species of animals. ... Second, adult DNA cloning is a technique that produces a copy of an existing animal; it involves removing the DNA from an embryo and replacing it with the DNA from an adult animal. Then, the embryo is allowed to develop into a new animal with the same DNA as the donor. ... Adult DNA cloning has many positive aspects to it; many species of extinct animals can be cloned if their functional DNA is found, and also...

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The technique that is used to clone the animals is called nuclear transfer and as it improves it could dramatically benefit the agricultural industry. Another ways it can benefit animals is we now have the ability to save endangered species. ... There are also debates on the moral rights of clones. ...

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The basic technique used to clone humans and animals, somatic-cell nuclear transfer, involves the insertion of DNA from a somatic cell into an egg which has had its nucleus removed (Appendix A.2). ... A clone is genetically identical to the person or animal who provided the somatic cell that provided the DNA. ... (Appendix A.5) There has also been concern over the rights of a human clone. ...

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Animals have just started to be cloned in laboratory settings. ... They ruled that it would take away one of the basic civil human rights. ... It would essentially say that infertile citizens have fewer rights than convicted criminals. ... Research needs to continue in order to come up with the perfect way to use cloning, whether it is fruit, organs or animals. ...

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Reproductive cloning is how animals are cloned today. ... Others replicated his experiment with a variety of animal. ... Some think that they may have fewer rights than what normal humans have. ... Cloning of animals seems to be okay by me. A few aspects that I can think of are being able to bring the population of endangered animals up. ...

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It is pointed out that the clones are only living organisms, they will have no rights, no inheritance, and no place in society (The Sixth Day 2000) besides perhaps being another body part for someone else. ... Just as we have laws to protect the environment and animals, the clones are still living organisms that will want laws for their own protection. ... The first and common theme showed that in the end cloning is the worst idea because clones themselves will want to have rights and their own freedom. However, they will not be viewed as having any actually rights because they are not huma...

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The dehumanizing nature of cloning shows a complete disrespect toward human life by disregarding clones of their human rights and dignity. ... Biotechnology was intended to enhance the treatment and cures of diseases by the uses of microorganisms and the organs of animals. ... They claim through their extensive research that they can make "plants and animals more resistant to disease, less expensive to grow and more nutritious- (115). ... Scientists are also using genetic engineering to develop safer vaccines to prevent animal diseases as well using animal organs to replace damaged human organ...

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(Bailey 110), people would consider this a violation of its human rights. For instance, if a patient were cloned involuntarily, that would likely be a violation of the patient's existing constitutional rights to privacy and reproductive freedom. ... They claim through their extensive research that they can make "plants and animals more resistant to disease, less expensive to grow and more nutritious?... Scientists are also using genetic engineering to develop safer vaccines to prevent animal diseases and new therapies (120). ... Even the "data on animal cloning demonstrates exceptionally ...

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Issues of whether the spare clone will have the same rights as the genetic donor are debatable. ... Certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population, which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, cloning has been recognized as giving women complete control over reproduction, possibly eliminating the need for men all together (Manning 1997). ... If human cloning were allowed before sufficient animal studies were undertaken, there is great risk to the clones and the re...

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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. ... They have their own identities, their own thoughts, and their own rights. ...

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Precis In his work Cloning of Embryo Stirs Ethical, James Wall, author for the Christian Century states, "Strictly speaking embryo cloning is a technique used by researchers and animal breeders to split a single embryo into two or more embryos that will have the exact same genetic information (Wall 117)." "The procedures used in cloning human embryos are very similar to the cloning of animal embryos, except for the zona pellucida. ... There is also a debate as to the moral rights of clones. ...

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He uses his knowledge of science as well as spiritual and religious matters to analyze the rights and wrongs of the cloning controversy. ... If the technique is perfected in animals first, will this save the tragic loss of fetal life that resulted from the early human experimentation with in vitro fertilization?... He discusses the issues of interest and rights of cloned individuals, concerns about the process of cloning, and the reasons for cloning. ...

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It is only when science crossed over to animal life that the problems began. ... The creation of animal organs compatible with humans could be possibly accomplished. ... A clone might have fewer rights than other people. ... A clone would have the same rights, as do all other people. ...

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Again, the issue of whether the child is fully human with all the same rights is at issue. ... Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. ...

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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). ... These are serious issues that should be taken into deep consideration before cloning rights are passed. ...

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