As the biotechnology keeps on developing and new biotechnologies are discovered, cloning of human babies is becoming famous and hot topic among many nations in the world. DNA cloning is a process to create many identical segments of DNA because a single human gene is so subtle and complicated that DNA cloning is necessary to deal with human genes (Cain and et al). The method for cloning is to use bacteria, especially E. coli chromosome, which is a large circular molecule of DNA and contains plasmids that replicate separately from the bacterial chromosome (Cain and et al). In order to clone human DNA, the scientists get a plasmid and insert foreign DNA, or DNA from another source, to the plasmid (Cain and et al). This results in recombinant DNA, and the plasmid that contains this DNA gets returned to a bacterial cell, becoming a recombinant bacterium (Cain and et al). After making a recombinant bacterium, this cell repeatedly goes through many cell divisions, creating many copies of this genetically modified DNA (Cain and et al). This new type of biotechnology is becoming famous because it contains a lot of benefits to both people and science. Cloning first amplifies the number of DNA that is subtle and complicated. Secondly, it can create some clones and genetically modified things such as food in order to benefit the people. The best use of this technology is to fix or replace infertility. “Infertility is a devastating disease. The psychological correlates of infertility are the same as diseases like cancer” shows that infertile couples are suffering the same amount of pain as the patients with cancer do (Mayrav). Therefore, by making such clones, many infertile couples can take advantage from it because by copying each of paren...
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... of human cloning. “Cloning was not illegal in 170 countries” shows that about 90 percent of the countries in the world do not ban the human cloning (“Clone offer for infertile”). Most of the advanced countries such as the United States of America, England, and Australia, banned human cloning because they knew about the dangers and risks of human cloning, while most of the underdeveloped countries such as China did not ban human cloning. The advanced countries that banned human cloning for the use of producing human babies should notify the world about the dangers and risks that human cloning has in order to stop the world from producing a human baby through the biotechnology called cloning. Therefore, the human cloning for infertile couples should be banned; however, cloning with no dangers and cloning for the researches to develop new things should not be banned.
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When the novel “Frankenstein”, by Mary Shelley came out in 1831 the general public was introduced to the idea of man creating another man scientifically; without the use of reproduction. This idea is still very interesting today, however many ethical problems are implicated when scientists, like Victor Frankenstein, disrupt the moral and ethical standards like many modern day scientists have done today with cloning. The astronomical effects that followed after the creation of The Monster, demonstrates the horrid fact that creating a human was not natural or ethical.
“Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.” (Kass) The concept of cloning continues to evoke debate, raising extensive ethical and moral controversy. As humans delve into the fields of science and technology, cloning, although once considered infeasible, could now become a reality. Although many see this advancement as the perfect solution to our modern dilemmas, from offering a potential cure for cancer, AIDS, and other irremediable diseases, its effects are easily forgotten. Cloning, especially when concerning humans, is not the direction we must pursue in enhancing our lives. It is impossible for us to predict its effects, it exhausts monetary funds, and it harshly abases humanity.
In conclusion, with the development of cloning technology, public have different attitudes towards it. On one hand, serious diseases, like liver cancer, are likely to be cured by transplanting healthy cells and scientists have more access to medical research. It brings hope for infertile families to obtain a baby. On the other hand, it has raised public concerns about security risks due to high failure and malformation rate, and ethical issues about dignity, which are mainly caused by productive cloning. Hence, therapeutic cloning should be enhanced to minimize its potential safety risks in order to be put into clinical application, while reproductive cloning ought to be prohibited worldwide without the agreement on moral issues.
Many people believe cloning is unethical and unusful. They believe that it should not be practiced, because it infringes upon their beliefs. They see cloning as a last resort and do not trust the science of cloning. “Several governments have considered or enacted legislation to slow down, limit or ban cloning experiments outright” (Freudenrich 5). Many people think that cloning a species is a very unideal situation. However the many benefits of cloning far outway the few disadvantages. Cloning endangered species is beneficial to saving most species around the world, in countries like the United States and China, from extinction.
It is essential that human cloning is outlawed. It is salacious to perform, research, and promote these experiments on human subjects; it is neglectful, and shrewd to make the presence of this objective technology legal, let alone obtainable. Not only is human cloning hazardous and illogical, but morally incorrect and greatly dishonorable. The most alarming thought referring to human cloning is that it has the power to alter the foundation, that we as a nation, are assembled upon. What occurs after we take things too far and lose control? What happens when we are no more satisfied in simply seeking education of the physical universe? We will cross the line between natural and synthetic. What will differentiate God from man? Do we have the authorization to change the evolution of life? Science has proven that we can reproduce humans both naturally and unnaturally, but that does not mean that mean we should stop questioning whether or not we should scientifically reproduce humans.
Even though cloning is a huge step in the future there are many reason, concerns, and questions that need to be answered before they continue the research. There are questions like what’s going to happen, or what are you going to do with clones, or why are clones needed. The main concern is what are they going to do with the clones. Many people think that a clone is exactly like what they are cloning. False it starts off a baby its just like making a baby but in a very hard way which is unnecessary. Yeah it may receive more traits from the cloned human but its not needed. They also can not say they will use them for scientific research or testing because it is a live, breathing, and a HUMAN being. Thats just like taking someone off the streets and doing test on them without consent. This is serious and it should be stopped!
Many people say that everyone in the world has a twin. Today, science and technology has the ability to make this myth reality through the process of cloning. I am strongly against cloning for many reasons. People should not utilize cloning because it would destroy individuality and uniqueness, cause overpopulation, animal cruelty, it is against morals and ethics, and it violates many religious beliefs.
People often question whether or not cloning is morally acceptable in our society, and also if it is worth all the money that we spend on research for cloning. It is hard to believe that not to long ago many people believed that joining a sperm and an egg in a test tube was considered to be morally wrong. It is now used by millions of doctors around the world. Cloning is at the beginning stages of being considered morally unacceptable and will soon move to be just like in-vitro fertilization. Soon everyone will understand the benefits of cloning in agriculture, medicine, and social parenthood. It is quite obvious that cloning has many social, agricultural, and medical benefits which outweigh its social and ethnic disadvantages.
Cloning is defined as the different processes for duplicating biological materials such as tissues and new life forms (“Cloning Fact Sheet” 2009). The cloning of human tissue should be allowed because the fields of medicine benefit from it; however, the full cloning of humans is a mockery of life because it creates a population of people who will not evolve or adapt to changes in the environment. Therefore, the government should financially support the research of therapeutic cloning while condemning the act of reproductive human cloning.
The cloning of any species is wrong because it is experimental and very unpredictable. Cloning is a way to make exact copies of an animal or person. This can be done several ways. All of these ways require scientists to do the research, time for the procedures, and patience for the embryos to grow. This whole process is expensive and not without loss of life. Cloning can be the separating of cells from one embryo to grow as another embryo, creating a twin with the exact same DNA. Cloning can also be removing the nucleus and DNA from an egg and transferring it into a somatic cell (any other cell in the body that is not a sperm or egg). This will make the cell act like a fertilized egg or embryo. These embryos need to be put into surrogate mothers so that they can grow into living things. I do not believe in this process because I think it is disrupting the balance of nature.
When the news first came out in 1996, Dolly the sheep was a global phenomenon. After 277 attempts, she was the first mammal cloned from an udder cell taken from an adult sheep (Lerner 2014). The success of this experiment paved the way into the world of animal cloning for many researchers and scientists to search for multiple uses that cloning could provide. However, cloning also comes with complications and obstacles to overcome. The many methods, benefits, and successes of animal cloning have proved that this could someday become a norm in the world, but, by looking at some of the problems with cloning, it could also be an idea that could never make the big leagues.
While many people envision the future being a utopia of automation and technological advances other individuals such as Aldous Huxley see a much darker, dystopian environment. The concepts of a utopia and dystopia are often confused. A utopia consists of perfection while a dystopia is often described as unpleasant. Dystopian ideas are often pleasant in concept however in practice these ideas may become disastrous. Many predictions have been made about society’s distant dystopian future, however many chilling examples have came true.
The term clone is commonly denoted as a genetically identical organism. In today’s world, cloning is thought to only happen to humans in films or shows, but in the real world, the cloning of animals is something that exists today. Animal Cloning became a relative topic among scientists after the success of the first cloned large mammal, Dolly the sheep, using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer. The success of cloning a large mammal opened up various possibilities that could come from this. The cloning of animals would be beneficial to both animals and humankind because it would have numerous valuable applications that could be used today and in the future.
The process of cloning is a very complicated process, especially if trying to clone other humans. So far, the process of cloning has really only extended to the cloning of animals. Unfortunately, the results for animal cloning have been mostly unsuccessful, producing a very high failure rate, and leaving no hope for human cloning. According to experts, “Even after several years of additional research and the development of new methods for extracting and transferring genetic material, well over ninety-nine percent of all cloning attempts still fail” (Dudley). The animals among this percentile rarely make it out of childhood, considering that only three to five percent of successful pregnancies, using cloned embryos, live to adulthood (Dudley). Even with all the new technology being used in today’s cloning experiments, the results still come up negative (“Human Cloning”). In fact, “For every 100 experiments only one, two, or if lucky, perhaps three appear to produce a viable offspring in surrogate mothers (“Human Cloning). In fact, cloning animals is so inefficient, that according to experts, “…for every 1000 tries, only one to