"Why We Shouldn't Make Cloning Legal."
Intro: Imagine this situation. It is your sixteenth birthday and your dear ninety-six year old grandmother, a person for whom you have felt a mysterious, but special bond, one day indicates that she has something very important to tell you, something that will change your whole life. After making sure you are comfortably seated, she announces that she, in fact, is not your grandmother at all. No, she is your twin sister!! Yes, it is true. The genetic material from the nucleus of one of her cells was inserted into another cell, then implanted in a surrogate womb. You are your grandmother's clone, her twin sister born eighty years after she was. As your dizzy mind begins to cope with this bombshell, it suddenly dawns on you that you never had a father, at least in the ordinary sense. The man you thought was your father in fact contributed no genetic material whatsoever to your body. When it comes to cloning, men are not needed for any part of the birthing process!! This is just one example among many unsettling ways that human cloning could disrupt our lives. Cloning-making a copy of something else. There seems to be many benefits, but do these advantages outweigh the weaknesses? Out of the research I have done on this subject,
The cell from which Dolly, the sheep, was cloned was frozen and came from a sheep that had already died! As a human clone in the following centuries, there is no reason why the human donor of your body's genetic material couldn't have died hundreds of years before you were born. 1st: There are many factors from which these problems come. First, there is the "ethical factor". An important reason we should not tamper with nature this way is that many of the possible lethal problems are totally unpredictable. Did the inventors of gasoline engines predict the greenhouse effect or the dangerous thinning of the ozone layer? The same technology that gives us nuclear power or the ability to destroy an asteroid also could give terrorists portable nuclear bombs. Similarly, cloning involves meddling with nature at such a serious level that the surprises, the potential abuses just aren't worth the risk. 2nd: Another question cloning brings up is "does cloning destroy a person's uniqueness?". Cloning a person is creating a something with an identical genetic code and this is a violation of basic human dignity. For example, part of your dignity is your uniqueness - the knowledge that there is no exact copy of you! Cloning will destroy this. 3rd: Further, cloning humans could lead to the development of a "super class" of people or even a "super race." Why would you want to clone a child in the first place? One important reason would be to make sure that your child
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Approximate Word count = 990
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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