According to The National Network of Organ Donors, in the United States someone is registered on the transplant waiting list, which means 130 people join the list every day. And if that statistic is not heart-rending enough, only 75 people receiving organ transplants each day on average, 19 of them waiting for transplants die each day due to the shortage of available donor organs. (TNNOD) This brings me to the topic of human cloning and how it may solve this tragic problem. Cloning technology is expected to assist in the results of several medical breakthroughs. Because cloning helps us understand the process of cell differentiation it is thought that there may one day be a cure for cancer. Furthermore, there are theories that exist that if other testing may lead to a cure for heart attacks and cloning organs for organ transplantation. (Garg) Moreover, scientists believe that there may be treatment for heart-attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that are damaged. (Smith) Cloning organs could eliminate individuals waiting on a list for an organ transplant. Cloning organs could eliminate those waiting on a list for an organ transplant. Suffering patients in desperate need of a transplant could have peace of mind like never before.(Garg) .
Although human cloning has been an issue of controversy due to ethical and religious reasons, there are many who will go against these ideas at any means necessary to see it not happen. They may argue that it is wrong to dabble in such research, but why not, if there the possibility for good and can save many lives. Why would we not want to do it? Other arguments may be due to the worry about where the line would be drowned that cloning may go too far. For example, at war would it be ethical to clone soldiers? If we created an army to win a war, using the soldiers as a type of the disposable robot to fight and helped win, why not? This could also be referred to as the 10,000 Hitler objection, this is most commonly stated as a fear that the technology would be used to create an army of Hitler's.
