Should Cloning be Banned
What ever happened to that magical word 'cloning' that dazzled everyone's mind. This one word has produced pride, anger, and amazement all at one. Pride, basically because humans have finally mastered the idea of producing a complete replica of a mammal. Anger, because the idea of cloning a human has stirred up many moral arguments. And amazement because just the idea of producing a human asexually, is well amazing. Cloning has stirred up many controversies, and when it all boils down to it, cloning is extremely beneficial to mankind. "Strictly speaking, a clone refers to one or more offspring derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the ancestor." (Beddington) No sex is involved in the production of clones, and since sex is the normal means which new genetic material is produced, clones have no choice but to be the exact duplicate and have the same genes as their parent. There is no sperm introduced to add its genetic makeup. "Since our genes dictate what we look like, how we behave, and what we can and cannot do, having identical genes ensures something more then similarity." (Beddington) So it is easy to understand why the production of Dolly, the sheep
3. "The Case for Human Cloning." http://www.best.com/~vere/cloning.htm Online Erol's Internet. 21 Dec 1998. Another popular argument against human cloning is 'it would diminish genetic diversity, leaving us more vulnerable to disease and epidemics'. This is based on the idea that cloning would be exploited to the extreme. There are over 5 billion people on Earth, and cloning would be done on a very small scale, since costs would prohibit over cloning. It would take decades before the clone population could even reach a million. In conclusion cloning can, and will be beneficial to mankind. By creating clones we can help cure and prevent fatal and painful diseases. Those who can not walk might finally be able to walk. There are many more positives to cloning then the negatives. With scientific discovery there will naturally be some mishaps, but that should not let us impair our scientific progress. If cloning is to be banned, what might we be missing? There are many ways in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Below explains ways it is expected to help people. Because heart disease is the number one killer in the United States, human cloning technology can be used to reverse h
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