The Ethics Of Cloning To Produce Children

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Cloning has started around the 1950’s and is still currently going on today. Human cloning of any kind should be banned; the thought that humans have the resources to create and produce life is disturbing; scientists imitating creation is beyond me and unethical. “cloning for the replication of human individuals is ethically unacceptable and contrary to human dignity and integrity” ( Birnbacher 2005). Cloning can also lead to lead to abnormal development, diseases, and short life span”. Cloning according to the reading in regards to children states “cloning to produce children is now and will always be unethical” ( Steinboch, London, Arras p.592). A cloned child may be put to harmful use, and may have immediate or long term consequences;

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