Should Animal Cloning Be Banned Essay

In 1997 at the Roslin Institute, a colossal scientific advancement was made with the birth of Dolly the sheep. Dolly was the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell, and the implications of that advancement had the public scrambling for answers. The debate is still emphasized today, but with all the new technology, scientists should be allowed to experiment on animals and human cells. Animal cloning is one of the greatest scientific advancements the world has ever seen and with it, millions of people that suffer from disease could be cured, animals on the verge of extinction could be “brought back,” and there would be many medical and genetic breakthroughs in the scientific field. Concession
Opposing this view, some may claim that animal cloning should be banned because animals suffer through the cloning process. When using somatic cell nuclear transfer, many animals go through pain in labor, premature deaths in infants animals are very common and very few of the infants live to grow into adults. Many of the surrogate mothers have pregnancy losses during different stages after the enucleated egg is placed in, with only 1-3% of the …show more content…
They argue that an embryo is just a homo sapiens at his/ her early stages of life. The stages of a human’s life are embryo, fetus, infant, child, adolescent, then adult, and a human is the same as an adult as he was when he/she was an embryo. That logic is flawed because through the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer, every, and any cell in the body has the capability of become and embryo. Every skin cell, liver cell, heart cell etc., is a potential human just waiting for the proper technology to be applied (Pence 49-50). If critics say that embryonic cloning should be banned because it is playing with a human life, then it would only make sense to ban any scientific work that involves a human