Analysis Of Ethical Issues Of Cloning By Rita Putatunda

Decent Essays
In the article “Ethical Issues of Cloning” by Rita Putatunda explains about the problems of cloning. Copying the genes and making new reproductions of the human is equivalent to “playing God”. The successful cloning of Dolly (Sheep) in 1997 brings many tension upon society and furthers the possibility of human cloning. However, there is a high failure rate of cloning and it may alter the genes of the cloned animal/human. Putatunda questions that the cloning outcome might act as a unique individual or have to live like a genetic prisoner. The possibility of cloning does have its advantages such as cloning organs to replace or repair the damaged ones. Despite the fact of cloning having its advantages, cloning are against the basic beliefs of

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The development of cloning technology led to new ways to produce medicine and improving the understanding of genetics. Cloned animals can be used to carry human traits that could lead to new developments in medicine. Also this could lead to human cloning, but this has not been legalized so far due to people's ethics. Although this process lead to a success in Dollie’s case, there…

    • 262 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Summary/Response: “Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict of Liberties.” In this article “Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict of Liberties,” Joyce C. Havstad’s conflict is if cloning becomes safe and reliable, people should be able to have reproductive freedom. The author explained that promoters of human cloning know that it may lead to harmful characteristics. Instead of positively promoting human cloning they explain the causes and effects that could take place.…

    • 262 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Currently the creation of cloning remains a debatable and moral disruption issued as unethical to the human race. Cloning takes away the uniqueness of species in the way that two or more people now share the same of everything especially genes which are supposed to be different from person to person. As science becomes more and more advanced, it seems to be taking humanity into science’s control. The issue of…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In 1996, the world had its first glimpse of a cloned animal in the form of Dolly the sheep. With that came much shock, not only in the scientific community but in the people of the world, because more and more people became interested with the notion of cloning. A big part in all of this was played by Dolly not just because it was a successful clone but because it opened up the world’s eyes on cloning (Aldridge par.3). But cloning is not just something where a person pops out of nowhere it is actually harder because scientist have to either get a stem cell from the host or either get the DNA from an animal and have the animal grow inside a closely related animal. Now more than ever, people have a great mind set on the ways they could help…

    • 212 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When the sheep Dolly was born, cloning turned from a Science Fiction to a reality humans have to deal with on so many levels. Cloning to bring back distinct animals, create a new breads and for humans cloning either to produce children for people who can’t have them, to avoid DNA related diseases, to produce organs for sick people who need them, to get a fresh new clone of a lost loved ones or even create super humans. All that has raised a lot of talk among the public. Since Day one, cloning has been tagged with playing the role of “GOD”, and when that happens, first questions rushed to all our minds are; how Ethical/ Unethical would that be? And how safe is it for all the parties involved?…

    • 479 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By using cloning as a way to help prevent and treat diseases, it could save the lives of thousands who live with diseases everyday. Cloning organs to help fight diseases, seems like a great idea, but it needs to be taken into consideration that, the only reason for the cloning of the organ, is to test on it. Many people don’t feel comfortable with that, so that is where there might be a problem. But it’s still a great idea to clone organs, to help prevent diseases. A more political reason for the cloning of human body parts, is that is shows…

    • 1383 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The process of cloning is socially controversial nowadays, as it involves creating an exact copy of oneself defying the laws of nature in the process. There are many influences that derive from human…

    • 967 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout all the research I have done, I have come to the conclusion that I disagree with cloning and gene therapy. It is a good idea, but it can mess up reality. In this paper, I will talk about what cloning and gene therapy is, give the pros and cons, and I will also give my own opinions about them. Cloning is making…

    • 1041 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Zach Loveless Mrs. Curlee English 4 4 February 2015 Is Cloning a Beneficial Process? Imagine a world where everyone is the same. There are no distinct facial features, no accents, no varying personalities or emotions. Will cloning ever progress to this level? Probably not.…

    • 1221 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Reproductive Cloning With constant new developments in science, society is forced to react and adapt. Along with these new developments, citizens are left questioning the ethics behind the experiment. Almost one hundred thirty years ago, society was introduced to the idea of cloning. It was not until the year nineteen ninety-six when the idea became reality and the first cloned mammal was born, Dolly the sheep. She set the grounds for the next cloned mammals to come.…

    • 1416 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Cloning in its simplest sense is “to make an identical copy of” (“Clone”). However, while cloning is the act of replicating, the word cloning encompasses far more than simple duplication. Cloning involves a wide variety of processes that can be used to produce genetically identical copies of a biological entity. In terms of biology, cloning is the natural process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning occurs naturally in biology, however, recently scientists have been cloning artificially for medical purposes or even to revive extinct species.…

    • 1385 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Duplicate Copy Human cloning is a rather controversial subject that has passionate people on both sides of the debate. It’s a technology that some feel questions their ethical standings and hits a little too close to home. On the other hand, human cloning could also provide medical answers to some incurable diseases, birth defects, and genetic disorders that currently have no treatments. Necessary sacrifices must be made for advancements in science to produce results.…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Immanuel Kant On Cloning

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Other than the scientific level, cloning has been a controversial topic on both ethics and morality, raising questions about human cloning on several levels. Some objections refer to protection of human cloning experiments, for the reason that the process…

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This article has giving me an insight about different way in assessing the issue about human cloning. It changes the way I used to think about human cloning. Typically, articles about human cloning only covers the issue arise between religion and science in discussing about the human cloning issue. It fails to describe the issue from different perspective such as society, ethics and law which successfully done by this article. I am totally agree with the author when instead of using the word ‘reproduction’ he uses the word ‘replication’ in defining cloning.…

    • 771 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Human Cloning Should human cloning be looked upon or frowned upon? Well I believe that you must really look into the effects it would have on not just the cloned individual but also those who surround the individual. In an article titled “The Ethics of Cloning” written by the American Medical Association they speak of these cons and expose them to their full potential.…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics