Persuasive Letter Human Cloning

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Recommended: A dialogue about human cloning

I would like to introduce myself as Nimrat Grewal. I am composing this letter to examine the issues about cloning mostly focusing on Human cloning as well as talking a little bit about Animal cloning. Cloning is a form of reproduction in which offspring result not from the chance union of egg and sperm (sexual reproduction) but from the deliberate replication of the genetic makeup of another single individual (asexual reproduction) (“Issue…”). Human cloning, therefore, is the asexual production of a new human organism that is, at all stages of development, genetically virtually identical to a currently existing or previously existing human being.

According to research by Science Daily, “Human Cloning is generally used to refer to artificial …show more content…

Many animals - including frogs, mice, sheep, and cows - had been cloned before Dolly. “Dolly the sheep was born in 1997: They take the nucleus of a cell from the original animal and inject it into an egg whose own nucleus has been removed”(Said Para 35) “From 277 cell fusions, 29 early embryos developed and were implanted into 13 surrogate mothers. But only one pregnancy went to full term, and the 6.6kg Finn Dorset lamb 6LLS (alias Dolly) was born after 148 days” (“Areas…”). Many other animals just like Dolly are cloned today and no one really cares because they are animals and do not matter. But the truth is that any living being is precious including plants as they breath just like humans do and hence they should not be cloned for experiments or any other kind of benefits.
With everything taken into account, cloning is not something that an individual shall do. Your decision about cloning matters and now you must decide if cloning is a good or bad idea? I do hope you make the decision of making cloning illegal for animals as well as humans. It is a matter of ethical and moral issues. It does not make a difference if it is an embryo or not, murdering it is not right and should not even be

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