The Inappropriateness of Cloning

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The Inappropriateness of Cloning

December 1998, researchers at Kyunghee University in South Korea claimed to have produced the world's first human embryo clone. The scientists involved said they destroyed the object soon after seeing it divide several times. ACT itself claimed in the November of that year that it had fused the genetic material from a human cell with the empty egg from a cow to make a hybrid embryo.

If ACT do succeed in producing full human blastocysts then the feasibility of therapeutic and reproductive cloning would be substantially increased. How is that for word choice? Genetically identical stem cells could potentially be created to cure degenerative diseases (therapeutic cloning), and certain infertile couples could finally choose to conceive a genetically Related child (reproductive cloning). While both procedures are somewhat controversial, the substantial benefits for the patients and potential parents could be argued to outweigh the ethical cost of actual human cloning. Some of the benefits of human cloning are Rejuvenation. Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents of human cloning technology, suggests that it may someday be possible to reverse the aging process because of what we learn from cloning.

Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries. These things will help the world in need, but what will be the circumstances?

Human cloning is one of the world's biggest issues today. With everything being said like, human cloning could drop the aging process and that it could keep the world going for many more years. Maybe the worlds not suppose to be like that. Isn't that why god created humans the way he did for a reason. Human cloning is doing nothing for the economy except taking tax money for their experiments. Human Cloning is doing something that is really not expectable in our society today. Is human cloning really needed, or is it just something to spend millions of dollars on? That is the question most people are asking today. Scientist still today cannot give the world a legitimate reason why human cloning is needed or necessary.

The people who are against human cloning need to come forward and help do something about it.

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