Persuasive Essay On Human Cloning

It started in 1997, during President Clinton’s presidential time. The topic of cloning was “hot” back then- everyone and anyone talked about it, while studies were being done by scientists, throughout animal cell research. No one actually believed in it, until Dolly the Sheep was discovered, which was why President Clinton banned the idea of “human cloning”. He and his Board of Ethics believed scientists would use their findings on humans, so it was prohibited to do any kind of genetic engineering that was anywhere near the idea of cloning human embryonic cells. Due to this decision, some changes were made on cloning organisms research, allowing only animal cell research be done. (Kolata 233). What is not recognized is despite this ban, the

They emphasize that cloning humans answers no questions for the world of science, neither does it benefit anyone. (Cohen, 12, and Kolata, 24). Cloning cannot end at animals just yet. Wilmut continues to explain that cloning animals’ cells are a good way to figure out how it can be helpful towards society, saying that cloned animals models can be used to test for new treatments for diseases that come out. Just that same year, in 1997, monkeys were cloned successfully, through embryonic cell transfer from primates; the significance of this study was, as Jerry Robinson, director of the Primate Centers Program admitted, “Now that we can produce identical monkeys, which will allow for research data that are certain, quicker, cheaper in studies on problems such as AIDS”. (Bradbury, 705). If just experimenting and using embryonic animal cells can bring outstanding results, it is great to hypothesize that human embryonic stem cells (therapeutic cloning) can do beyond more than we can

Unfortunately, after Clinton’s first decision in 1997, four years later, in 2001, not much changed when George W. Bush ran for President; he only limited the availability of human embryonic stem cell lines for research. “A bill calling for a four year moratorium on stem-cell research is currently pending in the US”, while in Minnesota, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and South Dakota, Members of the European Parliament have already passed laws that bans cloning research for medical reasons! (Wilson, 535). Weisfeldt, chair of department of medicine, at John Hopkins University, tries to emphasize over and over, that despite trying to find alternatives for therapeutic cloning, (such as using adult stem cells, or bone marrow cells), therapeutic cloning is still shown most effective for medicine to enhance in the near future. Last year, in 2002, at the University of California, a biotechnology company were able to make paralyzed mice walk again, by transplanting nerve cells that originated from human embryonic stem cells! (California passed the law for cloning, for medical purposes, which led to this successful experiment). (Wilson 537). Other experiments included a successful milestone of cloning cows’ embryos and, to be formed into cloned organs. (Also, experimented during 2002). The process of this experiment, was Dr. Robert Lanza, wanted to prove how therapeutic cloning can help those who have diseases or in need of organ transplants, but cannot