Essay, Research Paper: Cloning

Cloning
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.


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