To begin with, cloning is still a very imperfect science. The possibility of human cloning is still not even assured. Scientists have told a Select Committee of the House of Commons that the nuclear transfer technique they have applied to produce a cloned sheep could be, in theory, applied to humans . Whether anyone would try and whether it would work is another matter. But the "what if" question must now be asked with much more seriousness than would have ever been justified before.

In all of its complexity, the argument against cloning is easily summed up. To replicate any human technolo

Cloning raises a number of concerns arising from its consequences, of which instrumentality and risk are of especial importance. To replicate any human being technologically is a fundamentally instrumental act towards two unique individuals - the one from whom the clone is taken and the clone itself .In nearly all the speculative ideas for cloning a human would use the clone as a means towards someone else's end. They would be created as clones for the primary benefit not of the individuals themselves but of some third party. This would be the case for cloning a dying child or parent to help those bereaved cope with the loss, or cloning an infant with a predisposition to leukemia, as a source of bone marrow, which would suffer less tissue rejection problems. These violate a basic ethical principle, that of creating another human being other than primarily for their own sake . To clone a child with leukemia to provide compatible bone marrow would treat the cloned sibling to that extent as means to an end, for the benefit of a third party, rather than for their own sake, and without their consent .Again, it is rightly said that we have mixed motives for why we want children, but that does not justify treating a child as a means to an end.

Finally, the issue of cloning has many good points on both sides. Human cloning would bring grave risks of abuses to human dignity and exploitation by unscrupulous people. Although cloning research does present some dangers, it also has many potential benefits and should not be banned simply out of fear of its possible misuses. In such a situation of ongoing debate, people should be very slow to restrict the uses of cloning, because they are so intimately involved with personal decisions about family, reproduction, and curing diseases.

Cloning discoveries have found endless numbers of uses for cloning technologies. European scientists reported that they had cloned six calves using a new technique that allowed the animals to start life biologically younger than the aged cells from which they were derived. The calves were clones of the original DNA donor, exact genetic copies rather than individual mixtures of male and female DNA (Boyce, Joannie, and Sobel 20). But the cattle also differ from the sheep in one basic way. In early clones, scientists found that cloned cells retained the age of the donor. In this test researchers modified donor cells in such a way that the egg rejuvenated the new cells and gave them traits of youthful cells .Such techniques might eventually be used to create long-lived body parts from a patient's own cells. This is one of the numerous ways in which human cloning can be beneficial to mankind .Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents of human cloning technology suggests "Cloning can help reverse ageing by teaching us how to set our age back to 20." (Rutz 1) This is possible because each time a cell is cloned it's age is reverted to zero. Therefore, cloning will enable human beings to copy their cells and, when they are older, have the new ones with the age of zero implanted into them. This will allow humans to live to any age they want and eliminate the fear of old age. Contrary to scientists' ideas, it is possible to reprogram

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