Cons Of Cloning Research Paper

Ever since its beginnings, the concept of cloning has had people arguing from different sides on why cloning is either one of the greatest breakthroughs in the scientific world, or why it is a disaster waiting to happen. The subject matter has created much controversy about everything from its ethical validity to its unnatural process. Cloning, in general, is the process of creating an exact copy of something. In genetics, cloning refers to the process of making an identical copy of the DNA of an organism. Many argue that cloning has benefits such as being able to cure diseases and prolong life, however, everything has a good and a bad side. I, for one, am against cloning because there are too many risks and disadvantages as a result of cloning being inefficient, expensive, and unethical. Initially, people argue that cloning should be …show more content…
“When Dolly the sheep was first cloned in 1997, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 87% of Americans said human cloning would be a bad thing for humanity, and 88% said that it would be morally wrong.”-GALLUP News. We have transferred from cloning plants, to animals, and now scientists are thinking of cloning humans. Think of this, if scientists managed to clone and create a baby, how sure can they be that the baby is going to be healthy. Going back to Dolly the sheep, she died at the age of six due to unknown circumstances, and it is speculated that the cloning must have had something to do with it. On the day of Dolly’s death, she appeared as energetic and as healthy as ever, and then she just dropped. Also, cloning isn’t ethical because if there are defects, such as organisms born with bad traits or without the necessary ones, what will become of them if they are not wanted? The public is not comfortable with the concept of murder, and if we have to kill our own clone to take their healthy organs (even if the doctors kill the clone for us), I ask you this final question: What will become of