Cloning
To brief the history of cloning, I'm going to summarize its history in the following few lines. Scientists used nuclear transfer, in 1952, with the purpose of studying the early improvement in frogs. In the 1980's, they used cells taken straightly from early embryos, in the same procedure, to clone cattle and sheep. In 1995, scientists used embryo resultant cells that had been cultured for more than a few weeks in creating live lambs and it was the first time when live animals had been resulted from cultured cells. By the year 1996, the first cloned animal was cloned from a differentiated somatic cell that was taken from an adult animal and was called Dolly. Moreover, over 50 mice were cloned using nuclear transfer in August 1998. Since that time, scientists began to clone cattle, sheep, mice, goats and pigs. In 1998, a Korean group of scientists announced that they had used nuclear transfer to clone a human embryo. However, there is no evidence of successful redoing this experiment (www.bioethics-singapore.org/bac/detailed.jsp?artid=14&typeid=2&cid=17&bSubmitBy=false, 2002)To define and clarify cloning, it's believed that the somatic cell nuclear transfer is the fundamental process for cloning. "It involves transferring the
Hence, cloning has become a huge problematic issue in our society. More and more people are trying to be aware of cloning and its consequences. This process had touched all the areas of our society and therefore politicians are debating this issue whether it should be allowed or not. In addition, scientists attempt to create a human being by cloning and this should be banned for several reasons. Although cloning has some benefits, attempts to clone a human being will bring up many moral and ethical issues. In the above lines, I have briefed the history of cloning, identified its definition and pointed out how to clone, and in the following lines, I'm going to explain and clarify the reason I'm against the idea of cloning humans, mention some of scientists, doctors and people views and opinions on the subject of cloning humans, highlight the society's prospect towards cloned humans and specify the situation of cloning from an Islamic view. There are many serious reasons that stand against cloning humans, which I have found after the research I did on cloning, and that's why you will notice why I'm against it in this essay. Cloning, from the society's prospect, is a breaking of laws. People won't be able to communicate with cloned persons since they do know that they are dissimilar and different from them. Therefore, the cloned persons will feel badly and imperfectly because of people's reactions towards them. They won't be able to be in touch with normal people. The society, for sure, is against cloning because it'll affect people's relationships and because of the truth that God himself knows what's good for the sake of people and so he creates humans, as he knows and believes that they'll communicate and deal with each other well. As an evidence for this matter, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission called for a governmental ban for cloning humans on May 17, 1997 (www.all.org/abac/clontx07.htm, 2002).
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