Write A Persuasive Essay On Therapeutic Cloning

Imagine waking up one morning with severe pain in your chest, resulting in an ER visit because the pain is unbearable. The results from your doctor explains that you have a heart condition that requires you to get a heart transplant in the next three months, or heart failure will occur. Two and half months have passed, you are laying there, IV in hand, and the hum of machines around you, as you watch your health slowly slip away in front of your eyes, as that dreaded three month mark approaches. This same situation happens on a daily basis to many ill people around the world. The sick are given a number of days or months they have left and placed on the waiting list. Although many religious and conservation organizations find therapeutic cloning unacceptable and unethical, the process can be very rewarding for curing diseases that are otherwise untreatable. Every ten …show more content…
Christopher Barratt, in the article “Clinical Challenges in Providing Embryos for Stem-cell Initiatives,” suggests that researchers could use women that are willing to donate eggs that could be fertilized and normally have ovarian stimulation and egg recovery. His thinking is, the women that already participate in egg-sharing, where recipients get the eggs, would possibly consider donating them to research instead. Barratt says “…to donate, the decision rests solely with the donors” (Barratt). The researchers then gave the decision to the donor to donate towards research, instead of egg-sharing for a recipient. The argument that Barratt makes is that the donors are also individuals that hold full moral status over what is their, allowing them to make the decision. This should then not be considered killing an embryo. If women have the right to make the decision based on abortion or not, they should have the decision to donate to a favorable