Dolly And The Ethics Of Cloning

When Dolly, the first cloned sheep came in the news, cloning interested the masses. Not only scientists but also, even general people started to pay attention to knowing about how cloning is conducted and what pros and cons it has. The news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep Dolly has caused an outburst of ethical concerns. These concerns are not about Dolly, but rather about the possibility of cloning human beings. For the most part, however, the ethical concerns are being lightened, exaggerated and misplaced, because they are based on mistaken views about what genes are and what they can do. The danger, therefore, lies not in the power of the technology, but in the misunderstanding of its significance. Cloning should be outlawed …show more content…
This makes absolutely no sense because if the parents have some kind of genetic illness then that would be passed down to the clone. “Adopting a child with no genetic illness would be the best way to have children” (Strandquist 3).Finally, people who wish to clone their offspring instead of adopt dream of having superhuman children. A few examples of to whom these prospective parents would like their sons and daughters to be like would be Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs and more. People who believe this has any chance of succeeding watch too many science fiction movies. We could never have a race of giants or supermen because of the reasons already laid out. Most of these highly genetic super humans would die before they could show off their super human traits. Considering human cloning has a moral precedent, we can get a brief answer from Christianity of whether cloning is good or not. A good starting place to see whether or not cloning is Biblically sound can be found in the Old Testament, in Exodus 20:12 - 17. This is known as “The Ten Commandments” (1).The sixth commandment states: “Thou shall not kill” (Ex. 20:13).In a sad sort of a way, those that support the killing of all of those embryos who could potentially be a viable living and breathing child are most likely pro-choice/pro-abortion on the issue of abortion. Those embryos that get destroyed in many cases are not thought of by the parents and scientists to be living, breathing people. This is the vital point of the pro-abortion movement. Most people who support abortion do not think of their eggs/embryos as being real people. So, they have no trouble destroying what is in the womb. Therefore, both the abortion industry as well as the cloning industry work hand in