Should Human Cloning Be Banned

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Cloning is the production of one or more individual organisms that are genetically identical. The copied organism, which has the same genetic code as the original, is called a clone. In the last two decades, Cloning technology has been becoming mature, and been broadly applied on agriculture, human health, and many fields. Breeding by cloning is able to being directly reproduce an animal with a desirable set of genetic traits, the world 's most famous clone is Dolly the sheep that is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Also scientists are trying to recreate animals from endangered species, there is a possibility to make dinosaurs by cloning in the future. Logically, we should have an idea that we clone ourselves, called human cloning. Technically, human cloning is possible if not now, finally in the near future. However, should it be supported or banned? …show more content…
The Nuremburg Code condemned the atrocities of the Nazis and affirmed the ethical principles of the civilized world, including the principle that experiments should not be conducted on human beings when it is known beforehand that death will result. Research cloning violates this principle because it involves the deliberate creation and killing of embryonic human

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