Suppose one day you could go into a lab and make the perfect human being.
Suppose you could take your own genes and make a copy of them. .
Think about the possibilities: .
- The chance for childless couples to raise a family. .
- The chance for dying patients to harvest the organ they need to save their life. .
- The chance for a grieving family to replace their lost child one with another just like them. .
Sounds amazing, doesn't it? .
And the fact is, since Dolly - the worlds most famous sheep - was cloned , the possibility has become very real. .
But we must be careful about this. .
This is real science. .
It involves real human beings. .
And there are risks you take when you start to play God. .
Look at some examples in the field of infertility treatment today which have been reported in the news: .
- Take the university clinic in that California impregnates women with embryos from couples who haven't given their consent. .
- Take the woman who hires a surrogate to have her baby because she doesn't want to lose her svelte figure. .
And ask yourself this: .
If that's happening now, what extremes will people go to with this new technology? .
If we don't take care, we are going to end up making babies in ways so wrong that future generations could be in peril. .
Cast aside for one moment, the possibility that it won't work. Lets assume it can. .
And cast aside for one moment, the deep religious issues that this raises, even though they are very important. .
Even if we cast aside those two very significant aspects, we are still confronted with some clear issues that make a compelling case against cloning: .
Let's consider some of them: .
First: The awful things that will happen as the process is perfected. .
Dolly was only cloned after 276 tries, according to the New Scientist magazine. .
You might accept one in 273 possibly normal sheep as a result of cloning technique in sheep; .
but will people accept 12 deformed human fetuses and 200 failed fertilized eggs with an unknown outcome in human beings? .
What about human clones? Will cloning a human be a mistake or a miracle? ... How can we control human cloning world wide? ... Since we don't have a human clone yet, human cloning is too risky because we have too many unanswered questions. ... Another risk of human cloning is identity. ...
Why should we clone human beings? ... There are many health issues that can be avoided, reversed and cured by the cloning of human cells and body parts. ... The Food And Drug (FDA) has stated that it will not endorse or approve human cloning until such a time when cloning can be shown to be safe and effective. ... The ban on human cloning should be reconsidered. ... There are more reasons to clone human beings than just the medical breakthroughs of curing infertility, eliminating disease and extending human life spans. ...
The technology of cloning main objective is research on how to understand the human DNA better. ... All things considered, cloning technology has a lot to offer to human civilization. ... In Support of the Argument for Human Cloning. 31 Oct 1999. ... All the Reasons to Clone Human Beings. 2001. ... The benefits of human cloning. ...
I think that the DNA from a well-developed soldier with no major illnesses should be taken and cloned to produce several human beings to help fight wars. ... According to the article "Cloning" in the Washington Post, cloning individual human cells could lead to the vaccines and cures for cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis and many other diseases with no cure. ... According to the article "Human Cloning" by D. Dennis for the Human Cloning Organization in October of 2002, "Cloning could be used to help us understand things about the human body that cannot be solved by modern scientists. Clon...
So, it seems that the government is not giving human cloning a chance. ... Nerves and spinal cord could be grown, giving quadriplegics the ability to walk again (Human Cloning Foundation). ... Rothenberg goes on to say that cloning would challenge "concepts basic to our humanness." ... There are many advantages to continuing experimentation in the field of human cloning. ... The human race has made it this far without cloning, and we will continue to survive without it....
What are the common perceptions about human cloning? ... What is the general attitude regarding human cloning? Importance of the Study: Cloning humans is a controversial issue. ... To learn more about human cloning. ... Human Cloning : the process wherein human embryo are allowed to be divided and then separate them and allowed to developed into two embryos with identical genes which could become identical human beings. ...
Human Cloning Causes More Good Than Harm The idea of human cloning has been in science fiction movies for decades. ... The Cloning of humans will cause more good than harm. ... The process of human cloning is very difficult. ... Although there has not been a human clone produced there have been request from numerous people who would like to receive a human clone. ... When human cloning does come to existence there are many scenarios where the use of human cloning could be helpful. ...
In today's society, many people are concerned with the topic of human cloning. ... The experiment with Dolly led to many concerns towards human cloning. ... Despite the possibilities involved in cloning human beings, cloning is proven to be inefficient, violates religious ethics, and intrudes upon human dignity. ... When taking human cloning into consideration, would a clone have the same rights and obligations as a human? ... Human Cloning. 1998. ...
Human cloning means designer people with known pedigree. ... Cloning of human embryos has already been achieved. ... Huge amounts of money are at stake in human cloning research. ... One set of ethical concerns about human clones involves the risks and uncertainties associated with the current state of cloning technology. ... Assuming that scientists were able to clone human beings without incurring the risks mentioned above, what concerns might there be about the welfare of clones? ...
