Animal Cloning In Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein a fictional mad scientist may have more in common with modern day scientists than most expect; both going against nature and our humanity to create life. Cloning an idea not so long ago seemed like it was purely science fiction, but now that it’s looking more and more like an actuality, we ask ourselves should we keep it that way. Cloning animals is not only unnatural but has uncertain outcomes with a high failure rate and a high probability of diseased clones to continue the practice. Animal cloning has a significant percent of uncertainty that goes along with the process. Despite several hundred attempts and years of relentless research, more than ninety-five percent of cloning attempts results in failure (American Anti-Vivisection Society). The probability of the cloned animal coming out Successful ranges from less than one percent to three percent; which means that for every one thousand tries approximately thirty clones are successful (University of Utah Health Sciences). Even when efficiency rates are at their best, …show more content…
The surrogates used for the embryos and the successful clones often suffer serious and painful diseases including grossly oversized heads, twisted limbs, bloated fetuses, etc. in order to produce one successfully cloned animal (American Anti-Vivisection Society). A Scientist can spend countless hour to essentially create life only for the poor animal to die of an excruciating illness; and this process continues with countless numbers of animals used to obtain one successful clone. A majority of cloned animals who have survived the cloning process and aren’t born with some form of birth defect usually have one develop later in their life (University of Utah Health Sciences). With fifty percent dying between three and one hundred-thirty days of age from varying ailments (Fiester