Persuasive Essay On Reproductive Cloning

Reproductive Cloning
With constant new developments in science, society is forced to react and adapt. Along with these new developments, citizens are left questioning the ethics behind the experiment. Almost one hundred thirty years ago, society was introduced to the idea of cloning. It was not until the year nineteen ninety-six when the idea became reality and the first cloned mammal was born, Dolly the sheep. She set the grounds for the next cloned mammals to come. The process of cloning is a very tedious one that involves the transfer of one nucleus to a donor egg. In doing this, the egg has its nucleus replaced with the transferred one in a process known as transplantation. The egg then gets a new growth instruction from the new nucleus and in return grows into what the transferred nucleus calls for. Since the successful cloning to produce Dolly, cloning has been a worldwide controversial …show more content…
If anyone could have the right to create a cloned child, what would stop a single person from having a clone? Someone who does not want a spouse or love but wants a ‘child’ of their own. This questions the nature of the relationship between a donor and a clone. Would the clone be considered a brother, sister or child? To bring a child into the world currently it involves the idea of family. A man and woman are both needed. Cloning would encourage the idea of single parenting and take away from the ideas and values of a family. This would raise the question if society will do away with families. This also means there could never be individualized siblings for the clone. They would all be identical to each other. Not only does it degrade what it means to be a family, it also lowers the value of a zygote. A fertilized egg is valued because that is what creates the child. It also is responsible for the genetic variation it