Cloning A Human Essay

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Should We be able to Clone a Human I remember when I heard they cloned something for the first time. It was a sheep that they cloned, and they named it Dolly, I remember this because it was the few times I have ever watched the news as a child. I thought it was neatest thing. It was talked about everywhere after that for months, and everyone was talking about the what ifs and what could be within cloning. They even talked about human cloning and all the possibilities. As a child, I thought it would be awesome to see a clone out and about, but since I have become older I have thought things over more thoroughly, and I realized some new implications and possibilities of cloning that I had not thought of when I was a child. There does not seem to be a very good reason for us to clone as of yet. First, cloning humans is morally wrong. Especially if someone is a religious person. I think all religions are against cloning. If a god makes souls, but we cloned someone. Where does the soul come in? Would a cloned human have a …show more content…
This might be a nice reason for cloning a human, but it could still have negative results. However, just because the genetics for the child are the same doesn’t mean the personality will be the same. It’s like twins, they share the same genetics, but are two different people emotionally and mentally. It would ultimately hurt the parents more because they have their heart set on getting the same child back but in the end, it will not be the same child wanted back. It would look like the child and have some of the same traits, but it would not be the same child. In fact, in essence, it would be that child’s twin. It could hurt the child, too, if the parents don’t love the child for who they are. They may also think the parent loved their first child more. That could give that child a complex of not ever measuring up, always competing for the parents love and

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