What about Cloning?
Pros
1. If you can clone the vital organs of a human body, they can then be used as a backup if a body organ were to fail.
2. Cloning in humans can help infertility. Cloning may also make it possible to reproduce certain traits or qualities in human beings.
3. Cloning may also help fight genetic diseases by helping researchers understand the composition of genes.
4. We can also obtain customized organisms by cloning, which will help the health benefits of society.
5. Cloning can enable the genetic alteration of animals and plants.
Cons
1. Cloning is a process that can lessen the diversity of genes .
2. Cloning might cause more malpractices (are you sure you want to use this word or perhaps malpractice suits instead??) in society by causing reproduction of undesirable traits.
3. The potential technical and economic barriers that cloning will have on society. Will cloning be cost-effective and will it reach the common man?
4. Is cloning moral and ethical? Will it devalue mankind?
5. Is it risk-free to emulate God?
There are three different types of cloning. The first way involves using specialized DNA to produce multiple, exact copies, of a single gene. The next type of cloning is the natural process of cell division, which makes many copies of an entire cell. Lastly, the third type of cloning produces complete, genetically identical animals. Many different types of animals have been cloned thus far. Just to name a few, there have been: cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, tadpoles, and even fruit flies. Not to mention, we have been cloning plants for decades as well; this process is known as "vegetative propagation." We have not cloned human beings so far, but it may be possible in t...
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In conclusion, there are many reasons why I don't believe cloning will be an everyday practice in the future. The cost of cloning animals is so high that scientists do not want to spend money to clone an animal for food. They will however, clone an animal for breeding and use the offspring for food. The moral issue of cloning is, in my opinion, the biggest one. Do we have the right to play God? I understand the usefulness of cloning plants for food usage but I strongly do not believe that we have the right of creation in cloning humans. This argument will obviously become a larger issue as the process of cloning gets perfected.
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“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.
... of reproductive cloning is that in the future, it may be a solution to infertility, where a baby containing the genes of both parents could be artificially created, which will help the millions around the world who are unable to have children. Another benefit of cloning is that plants and animals can artificially be produced in large quantities directed at human consumption, which may, in the future help world hunger. Nutritionally superior or more “predictable” plants can also be created which will which will benefit us health-wise, and save farm costs. Lastly, the main advantage of cloning is that, through organ transplantation (therapeutic cloning), lives can be saved or prolonged, for those who have defective organs. For these 3 reasons, it’s a no brainer that scientists should continue extensive research and experiments for the better of our society as a whole.
One of the biggest problems with the use of cloning is the decline in genetic diversity, continued use of cloning would lead to inbreeding, wide scale, conformity. Humans would be taking nature into their own hands.
Throughout time, human and animal cloning has developed into a new important technology in everyday lives without always knowing it. Cloning is the process of copying or duplicating an organism. Human and animal cloning has so many different outcomes and uncertainties. It can be used for many different purposes, depending on what someone wants to use it for. People all around the world have different views on cloning. Some are against it and some are for it. However, not everyone fully understands how cloning works. Human and animal cloning will determine our future. It can improve or maybe even destroy mankind. Cloning is very important to the world because it can lead to new developments later on in the world that have not yet been thought of.
In "Human Cloning? Don't Just Say No," Ruth Macklin states that while human cloning might not offer any benefits, no one has yet made a persuasive case that it would do any real harm either.
Animals and plants could be cloned to produce lifesaving medicines through the research obtained on the way to human cloning. Human cloning research could cure many incurable diseases. “Medical breakthroughs from cloning research could cure cancer and heart attacks, lead to organs for organ transplants, and a revolution in cosmetic surgery. A balding man could have grafts made of his own hair and have it transplanted onto his scalp” (Human Cloning Foundation). Human cloning technology could allow children to lead better lives than their parents did, because of medical breakthroughs. Cloning could lead to the fountain of youth. It could allow reproduction of organs so people could transplant organs and never die.
...ning and experimenting. The benefits and problems of cloning tend to make a cycle. For example, if scientists continue to genetically clone species that help in the medicinal field, then this would cause people to live unnaturally long. The issue of extreme overcrowding would arise, and scientists would have to clone or grow more crops to provide an adequate amount of food for everyone, thus leading to more possible environmental damage. Cloning has been proven to be useful to society; however there are many risks that come with it. This process needs to be analyzed in more depth in each circumstance, to determine the long term effects, before moving forward with the use of cloning on a global scale. Cloning is a beneficial process to our society; however certain forms of human cloning are unacceptable at this time, due to our inability to predict consequences.
For decades, cloning was merely a topic mentioned in the text of science fiction novels. It was simply a fictitious fantasy that proved to only be for entertainment purposes. However, while all those novels and films were being produced, a multitude of scientists attempted to make what society thought of as a dream, into a reality. The science of cloning is the process of making genetic duplicate of an organism. The scientific history of cloning spans more than 100 years dating back to 1885, and still going strong today. In general, there are two main purposes for cloning: therapeutic or reproductive. Reproductive cloning is performed with the intent of making a complete organism. Therapeutic cloning is performed to harvest stem cells for use in medical treatment, such as cloning organs for transplant. There are benefits and consequences for each process that have sparked ethical and scientific debate over the years. With the help of advancements in technology in the future, cloning can provide medical breakthroughs.
...l cloning has been happening for many years. Many problems, such as finding cures for diseases, having less desirable qualities of livestock, scarcity of food like meat, dairy and milk, and shortage of human or animal organ donors, can worsen as the world becomes more populated and faults are discovered every day. It will help in our quality of life and allow us to live longer lives. It will help get rid of birth defects in babies because we will understand genetics better with cloning. With animal cloning, we can clone animals for food to end world hunger. Cloning has been developed as a potential technology to produce high quality plants and animals. If the clone comes from a breed that is free from certain diseases, the disease may be eliminated from the breed. Also, the best breeds and the highest quality meat and other products could be produced consistently.
Secondly, cloning as it does have good effects and outcomes also has bad effects and outcomes and the bad outweighs the good in t...
Due to such negative reactions towards cloning the public is never given the opportunity to actually go into depth about what exactly cloning does. There are two types of cloning, one of the two, “reproductive cloning is when the creation of an individual has identical genetic material to an existing being” (Bargalow). In comparison, therapeutic cloning is the removal of genetic material to clone and mend a patient's cells, organs, or
All things considered, cloning has many application that can improve our lifestyles for the better. Animal cloning is becoming more prominent in not only the science field but also medical. There are some disadvantages, but as time goes on more advancements will be made to improve it. It is easy to confuse science fiction with science, when in reality cloning has long time reliability.
John A. Robertson’s article “Human Cloning and the Challenge of Regulation” raises three important reasons on why there shouldn’t be a ban on Human Cloning but that it should be regulated. Couples who are infertile might choose to clone one of the partners instead of using sperm, eggs, or embryo’s from anonymous donors. In conventional in vitro fertilization, doctors attempt to start with many ova, fertilize each with sperm and implant all of them in the woman's womb in the hope that one will result in pregnancy. (Robertson) But some women can only supply a single egg. Through the use of embryo cloning, that egg might be divisible into, say 8 zygotes for implanting. The chance of those women becoming pregnant would be much greater. (Kassirer) Secondly, it would benefit a couple at high risk of having offspring with a genetic disease choose weather to risk the birth of an affected child. (Robertson) Parents who are known to be at risk of passing a genetic defect to a child could make use of cloning. A fertilized ovum could be cloned, and the duplicate tested for the disease or disorder. If the clone were free of genetic defects, then the other clone would be as well. Then this could be implanted in the woman and allowed to mature to term. (Heyd) Thirdly, it would be used to obtain tissue or organs...
With the idea of cloning there are many causes. According to Emily Sohn , “ The goal of cloning is to take control of the reproductive process” (Sohn par. 11). This mean that if we take over breeding then we would have more clones than we do today. From the article “Animals Clones:Double Trouble” it said that “It might also be to save endangered animals if there are too few of them to reproduce well on their own” (Sohn par. 12). This is important because animals in the world play a part and if certain
Advances in technology and science have created the impossible outcomes onto possibilities no one has done or seen before. Thanks to modern day science and technology, the possibility of cloning humans can soon become a reality. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of a clone is a cell product that is genetically identical to the unit or individual form which it was derived. Cloning has been discovered recently in today’s science research with the popularity of the first successful cloning mammal in 1996, the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. With Dolly being a success and other mammals such as pigs and dogs have been successfully cloned throughout the years, there are now debates whether or not cloning should be done on humans. Many people are in support of the idea of cloning humans because it can be a tool to bring back a significant other back into this world, however, according to scientist there is