Is Animal Cloning Is Unsafe

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There’s a great chance of failure.
Cloning an animal or a human can lead to many failures. 95% of animal cloning has failed because of genetic defects. Cloning is considered unsafe because of this. The idea behind cloning is to get cells from a cell donor and raise them to a embryonic stage, and then place them in a surrogate to grow them. However, there is a possibility that the age of the donor could effect the growth of the embryo. This would cause aging issues and potentially lead to death. This was just one example of the consequences aging could have.

2. If cloning doesn’t get banned parents are free to design their own children.
Imagine you could design your own child, wouldn’t that be nice? No! If everybody has the right to clone

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