Cloning (Position)

Of course, some forms of medical help are more invasive than others. With in vitro fertilization, the sperm and egg are combined in the lab and surgically implanted in the womb. Less than two decades ago, a similar concern was raised over the ethical issues involved in "test-tube babies". Today, nearly 30,000 such babies have been born in the United States alone. Many parents have been made happy. So what principle says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is Ok, but another is not?.
             Nature clones people all the time, and rather frequently. Approximately 1 in 1,000 births is of 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 occupations, get different diseases, have different experiences with marriage, alcohol, community leadership, and etc. The argument that cloning robs individuals of their individuality therefore doesn't hold. .
             Perhaps the strongest ethical argument against cloning is that it could lead to a new, unfamiliar type of family relationship. We have no idea what it would be like to grow up as the child of a parent who seems to know you from the inside. Some psychological characteristics may be biologically based and the parent will know in advance what crisis a cloned teenager will go through and how he or she will respond. It may produce a good and loving relationship, because the parent may understand, to a greater degree than most parents, what the child is going through. On the other hand, most children want to have their own space. Still, just because a family relationship is new and untried, is not a reason to condemn it automatically. .
             Some of you might think that cloning is playing God. However, can you really say that you know God's intentions? There is substantial disagreement as to what is God's will.