Classicial Argument on Cloning
Of all the medical advancements mankind has created, nothing is more remarkable, and controversial, than human cloning. Late February 1997 the world was stunned that a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had successfully cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Replacing the DNA of a sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder created Dolly. Plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for several years. It had been thought by some to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed successfully on higher mammals. For humans to consider cloning one another forces us to question the very concepts of right and wrong. The cloning of any species, whether they are human or non-human, is unethical, unsafe and morally wrong and should be postponed until such issues are resolved. Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt threatened by the ramifications of cloning and have been compelled to act against this procedure. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning research. Both hous
In summary, human cloning and cloning research should be made illegal by the U.S. Federal Government because it is unsafe, unethical and morally wrong. The ethical and moral implications of cloning are such that it would be wrong for the human race to support or advocate it. The sheer loss of life in both humans and non-humans is enough to prove that cloning would be a foolish endeavor, whatever the cause. An effective argument put forth in favor of human cloning is that cloning could provide the only avenue available to some infertile couples for producing children. In cases of fertile couples in which one member carries a gene for a disease, cloning using a cell from the other member could assure that the couple has a healthy child of its own. Some U.S. legal experts claim that preventing a couple from choosing cloning as a method of reproduction could be unconstitutional. Scientists and ethicists who favor human cloning research also argue that cloning may provide a better understanding of the nature of genetic diseases and aid in the production of embryos from which cells
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