When Cloning Is Wrong

Have you ever wondered what the long term effects would be if cloning was legalized? Maybe the risks involved with it? Well, Leon Kass once stated that “Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.” This being said brings up the topic of whether cloning should be legalized due to the dangers it holds. The answer to this is no. However, Many people disagree. A copious amount of people believe that there can be benefits to parents who cannot conceive children of their own, extra organs for those who need them, and advancements in the field of technology. None of these reasons are good enough to support the legalization of cloning. The reasons that cloning should …show more content…
Many believe that cloning will provide many advancements in the field of medicine but we do not know for sure if the process of cloning can be perfected or how long it would take so therefore it should not be legalized. Jose Cibelli says that human cloning could be very possible in the future, but, “it would be criminal to try now because of the suffering caused by the many lost pregnancies the process involves.”(Chinese). So much suffering and many lost children could cause harmful effects on women therefore making this unethical. Human cloning would also “ require many women to donate eggs and to bear children for others.”(Chinese). Women would half to go through a lot for a process that would cause much stress, take much time, and even cause harm. Also the topic of animal cloning strikes many reasons as to why cloning is unethical. There are a majority of animal casualties in the process of trying to clone animals and scientists say that it would be “foolhardy to pursue experiments in humans.”(far). Nevertheless, It is not yet safe for us to attempt at any cloning. If a child were to be cloned it would face many “psychological and emotional risks” because they may receive social isolation and would live under a shadow of the original child.(Chinese). People could also end up being cloned without agreeing to it. It only takes “one cell to start the process, someone, perhaps a celebrity, could be cloned without her consent.”(national). This poses many threats to people's individuality and is very unethical. Cloning results are not set in stone. The results are not predictable and Cloning has “ a failure rate of at least 90 percent” showing that many lives are lost.(Chinese). Also, there are many “safety risks and potential harm to the women involved in both the extraction of the eggs and implantations of cloned embryos.”(Rygiel). All of these reasons show how cloning should not be