Jaime Ahlberg's Article: The Dangers Of Human Cloning

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.” A quote from Markus Zusak from his novel, The Book Thief. This quote encapsulates how the general population feels about death; afraid; pitiful; and questioning. For millennia humans have worried about death, the fear beginning as conscious thought did. People have tried crazy ways to live forever and in result created a branch of science called Alchemy. Some example of tonics and potions for immortality are distilled urine, and liquid mercury. We now know that neither of those aren’t effective in producing longer life or an eternal life. But a new possibility has emerged: human genome cloning. Human cloning should remain illegal to prevent the abuse of those cloned. The limitation or banning of human cloning is significant because cloning, if legalized, would take place in everyone’s lives. People would look over the ballots for election year after year, the slips filled with the same names due to the rich affording to create clones of themselves, using technicalities to allow clones to hold offices year after year. The rich would have a monopoly over power, and the poor wouldn’t be able to afford such a luxury.

In addition, they would be unusually at risk of genetic defects” (Ahlberg). Cloning has become possible in theory for humans, though looking at animal cases we see more eruptions of mutations, disease, and shortened life spans; making scientists pose the question, “is it ethical?”. Suppose that human cloning had begun, what would it be used