Zach Loveless
Mrs. Curlee
English 4
4 February 2015
Is Cloning a Beneficial Process? Imagine a world where everyone is the same. There are no distinct facial features, no accents, no varying personalities or emotions. Will cloning ever progress to this level? Probably not. Cloning is a slippery slope that every scientist must watch his step on. Therapeutic and gene cloning could be useful for scientific experimentation and research, but reproductive cloning is dangerous due to the emotional, medical, and social complications.
"Cloning describes the processes used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue, or organism" (Cloning. MedlinePlus). The three main types of cloning are gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic …show more content…
Gene cloning helps advance scientific research and allows scientists to learn more about genetics and DNA. Therapeutic cloning seems to be beneficial as well, seeing as how it helps treat diseases and allows scientists to learn about various illnesses and how to better counter them. But it is questioned whether or not reproductive cloning has benefits that will be ethically acceptable. Those who say it is ethical have many reasons. If a family appears to have great talent in the music industry, they could use their genetic material to clone another human with the possibility of that human having the same ability. If a man and woman want a child, and yet the man is unable to produce a child, he could still donate genetic material which could be inserted into the woman 's egg cell which would still allow them to have a child of their own DNA. Similarly, two female homosexuals could have children from their own DNA if one provided the genetic information and the other had the child (Robinson). Also, if a family member died as a newborn or while very young, a clone could serve to replace this death, though many people could view this as ethically wrong. All of these reasons should be considered when viewing the ethics of reproductive …show more content…
"Besides the public outrage that would accompany human cloning failures...research in areas such as embryonic stem cells could be negatively impacted" (Human Cloning). "Senator Ben Campbell (R-Co) offered a bill (April, 2001) in the Senate to bar human cloning..." (Human Cloning). These reports show that already there is a negative view towards the cloning of humans and until it is successfully carried out, perhaps in a country in Asia, cloning will most likely be viewed as something dangerous and
Mrs. Curlee
English 4
4 February 2015
Is Cloning a Beneficial Process? Imagine a world where everyone is the same. There are no distinct facial features, no accents, no varying personalities or emotions. Will cloning ever progress to this level? Probably not. Cloning is a slippery slope that every scientist must watch his step on. Therapeutic and gene cloning could be useful for scientific experimentation and research, but reproductive cloning is dangerous due to the emotional, medical, and social complications.
"Cloning describes the processes used to create an exact genetic replica of another cell, tissue, or organism" (Cloning. MedlinePlus). The three main types of cloning are gene cloning, reproductive cloning, and therapeutic …show more content…
Gene cloning helps advance scientific research and allows scientists to learn more about genetics and DNA. Therapeutic cloning seems to be beneficial as well, seeing as how it helps treat diseases and allows scientists to learn about various illnesses and how to better counter them. But it is questioned whether or not reproductive cloning has benefits that will be ethically acceptable. Those who say it is ethical have many reasons. If a family appears to have great talent in the music industry, they could use their genetic material to clone another human with the possibility of that human having the same ability. If a man and woman want a child, and yet the man is unable to produce a child, he could still donate genetic material which could be inserted into the woman 's egg cell which would still allow them to have a child of their own DNA. Similarly, two female homosexuals could have children from their own DNA if one provided the genetic information and the other had the child (Robinson). Also, if a family member died as a newborn or while very young, a clone could serve to replace this death, though many people could view this as ethically wrong. All of these reasons should be considered when viewing the ethics of reproductive …show more content…
"Besides the public outrage that would accompany human cloning failures...research in areas such as embryonic stem cells could be negatively impacted" (Human Cloning). "Senator Ben Campbell (R-Co) offered a bill (April, 2001) in the Senate to bar human cloning..." (Human Cloning). These reports show that already there is a negative view towards the cloning of humans and until it is successfully carried out, perhaps in a country in Asia, cloning will most likely be viewed as something dangerous and