Cloning Essay, Research Paper

ALL CONSTRAINTS UPON CLONING SHOULD BE

LIFED

Cloning has been a very controversial topic

since it affects moral values of human beings and other living things alike.

In February 1997 scientists in Scotland announced the birth of the first

cloned sheep named Dolly, this heralded the future of cloning possibilities

and scientists began extensive experiments on cloning and have since then

cloned both plants and animals successfully. The next step was to clone

actual human beings but before experiments could have been carried out

pressure started build on the scientists because people started to doubt

if cloning was ethical and morally correct. Governments began to introduce

bans and constraints on cloning, as they felt cloning was not correct and

because they represented the people of its country, it had to act on it.

Cloning has its cons but its pros seem to overcome them greatly.

If cloning were allowed to be experimented

scientists would come up of a way to clone body organs which are an exact

replica of an individual body organ. This would prove very to be very beneficial

to a person who may have lost a body organ such as a kidney, scientists

could clone that particular organ for the individual, which, in the long

run, would work better than a transplant organ.

Cloning will certainly expand the scope

of medicine greatly, thus enhance the possibilities of conquering diseases

such as the Parkinson’s disease, cancer and other diseases that were earlier

considered incurable

Cloning could be used to increase the population

of endangered species of animals and thus save them from total extinction.

This would help maintain a natural balance on the earth and have a continuos

natural life cycle.

Cloning could certainly benefit couples

who are infertile and want to have a child of their own, thus they could

use cloning to produce a baby with their similar characteristics. In fact

they may be able to even choose the characteristics of their child. Equally

important women who are single could have child, using cloning instead

of artificial insemination. Cloning could also provide a copy of a child

for a couple whose child had died.

Another goal of cloning is to produce livestock

with ideal characters for the agricultural industry and to be able to manufacture

biological products such as proteins for humans.

Some people would suggest that cloning

is unnatural and not ethically correct but so would be talking medicine

when you fall sick. The whole of the modern medicine world in based on

unnaturalness, so it seems cloning would be part of that modern medicine

world. Some people also suggest that clones of human beings would behave

in different ways than a normal human being would however this is also

wrong as the clones will behave like any other human being would behave

as it will have all the characteristics of a normal human being, as long

as the individual who was cloned had human characteristics, it wont really

matter.

In conclusion I would like to say that,

as you’ve seen above, cloning could be used in various ways to benefit

the lives of humans .It is inevitable that cloning, at some stage, will

play an important, if not vital, part in our lives therefore it is about

time that society accepts this fact and lifts all constraints upon cloning

so that more research can be carried out and help eliminate any risks associated

with cloning.