Is Cloning Morally Wrong Essay

Will the clone have the same soul as the original? What is to stop rich people from cloning themselves? Do we even want rooms full of human clones, silently growing spare parts for the person whom they had been copied? These are the arguments presented by intellectuals when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues announced that they had successfully cloned an adult sheep in 1997. One critic said it would be the worst thing in human history. “All of these arguments had their intended effect; today, a large majority of Americans think that human cloning is morally wrong” (RTD pg. 329). Cloning only reproduces a common occurrence in nature. A person who was conceived by cloning is the genetic duplicate of someone else, but so are monozygotic twins. So, if there is nothing bad about having twins, “naturally,” why should it be wrong to use cloning techniques to bring the delayed birth of a twin? “Human cloning is not wrong and has legitimate purposes, and we should focus on doing it well,” argues John A. Robertson, a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin (RTD pg. 329). Cloning is just one of several techniques potentially available to select, control, or alter the genome of offspring. With the technology rising in today’s society, …show more content…
A child who might need an organ or tissue transplant might lack a medically suitable donor. Conceiving another child hoping that they will have the matching tissue to supply their older sibling is not promising. If the parents were able to clone their child, this would promise matching tissue. Robertson adds that it might even be possible in the future, to be able to procure suitable tissue or organs by cloning the source DNA only to the point at which stem cells or other material might be obtained for transplantation, which would avoid having to bring another human being into the world, only to obtain tissue (RTD pg.