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Cloning Is Ethically Unacceptable

 

            To clone or not? This is one of the most discussable questions in the world. Cloning or Genetic engineering, in its broadest definition, means to manipulate a species so that a particular trait is increased in the population. The earliest forms of genetic engineering occurred on farms, where most people on earth lived at the time. They managed to do this by selecting seeds from plants that maybe had more fruit production or tastier leaves than other plants of its type. Genetic engineering of human beings is much more complicated and it provides many negative features and the most important being it infringes human dignity, there is no guarantee you will get a normal clone from the first attempt.
             The first and foremost, when a person is cloned, he or she loses his or her uniqueness, human dignity. A good example here will be a cloned child, who can reject every aspect of his education, but he can not reject the genes which were selected for him. This kind of control is not compatible with the ethical issues about human freedom, in the sense that genetic identity of each person must be unpredictable and unplanned. And in the future this person will feel discomfort because of the questions arising: "Am I just a copy of a person, who have already existed?" "Who am I?" "What kind of relationships will I have with the person from whom I have been cloned?" Nobody can predict with 100% certainty the reaction of a cloned person. And if nobody knows how people will suffer because of this situation, we can not expose people to this kind of risk.
             Lastly, it took about 280 attempts and over 30 disturbed pregnancies before sheep Dolly could see the world. To repeat this kind of experiment means to expose mother and unborn child to a high risk of injury. How many abnormal children should be born until we get one normal? There are a lot of unknown things in cloning, an experiment with cloning a human being will be an outrage on the normal medical practice.


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