The cloning of animals has been happening for several years now, and this has now opened up the likelihood of the cloning of people. Despite the fact that there are clear advantages of cloning to mankind, human cloning is not only immoral, but is also a threat to the natural cycle of life.
The idea of someday being able to clone a human scares many people in the United States and in the world. The United States passed a law preventing Federal funds to be used in cloning research and by 2008 fifteen states had laws that banned human cloning (Kass). In 2008 in the State of the Union address, President Bush asked congress “to pass a legislation that bans unethical practices such as the buying, selling, patenting or cloning of human life” (Kass). …show more content…
There are two different types of cloning the reproductive cloning and the therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning is when a clone’s DNA is identical to the donor and after the nucleus has been put into the egg the embryo is placed back into the uterus to allow the embryo to implant and develop. Therapeutic cloning involves creating copies of the cell to make someone better. These cells are grown in a Petri dish rather than in the uterus like reproductive cloning. 1952 was the first time that scientists demonstrated that the removal of a nucleus from a frog’s egg is possible.
In April 2014 it was reported for the first time that cloning technologies were used to produce stem cells that genetically matched adult patients. Researchers put adult skin cells inside an egg and the egg went through the first steps of embryonic development. Scientists that clone human cells stop at the embryonic stage and use the embryo to make stem
The idea of someday being able to clone a human scares many people in the United States and in the world. The United States passed a law preventing Federal funds to be used in cloning research and by 2008 fifteen states had laws that banned human cloning (Kass). In 2008 in the State of the Union address, President Bush asked congress “to pass a legislation that bans unethical practices such as the buying, selling, patenting or cloning of human life” (Kass). …show more content…
There are two different types of cloning the reproductive cloning and the therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning is when a clone’s DNA is identical to the donor and after the nucleus has been put into the egg the embryo is placed back into the uterus to allow the embryo to implant and develop. Therapeutic cloning involves creating copies of the cell to make someone better. These cells are grown in a Petri dish rather than in the uterus like reproductive cloning. 1952 was the first time that scientists demonstrated that the removal of a nucleus from a frog’s egg is possible.
In April 2014 it was reported for the first time that cloning technologies were used to produce stem cells that genetically matched adult patients. Researchers put adult skin cells inside an egg and the egg went through the first steps of embryonic development. Scientists that clone human cells stop at the embryonic stage and use the embryo to make stem