Within the past few decades, the world has experienced an incredible boom in technology, leading to such things as space travel, the internet, and wireless phones among others. The field of medicine has been no exception. With vaccines that have almost completely wiped out tuberculosis and smallpox, there is no doubt that the field of medicine has experienced some incredible advances. However, one such advance seems to have more harmful effects than beneficial ones: cloning.
Four years ago, the world was introduced to Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned animal. With this achievement, scientists have no doubt begun to look at the benefits of cloning humans. Organ donors shall no longer be needed, and any exp
Finally, cloning has one more use seen as beneficial: the ability to clone endangered species. While this is an incredible way to help save dying species, it should not be taken as an alternative to protecting the animals and their habitats from destruction. I fear that once we begin to clone endangered animals, humans shall see no reason to kill them or their habitat. This once again cheapens life and reduces it to nothing more than something created in a lab. Cloning should be used to help stabilize the population of an endangered species and then used no longer after that.
Likewise, the military has also undoubtedly been studying the benefits of cloning humans. Whichever country has the ability to clone has the potential for a com
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