Genetic Cloning

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From 277 attempts, Dolly was the only successful attempt. The point is however that we now have a man created sheep, what else could be done in the near future.
There are many different goals for . Would you like to clone someone close to you who had died? In the movie “Gattaca” you get a peak at something that could be made possible by cloning, the genetic engineering of children not yet born. It could be the end of birth defects. If given the choice to be able to make a child perfectly healthy and have the traits you want in your child, would you do it? Infertile couples would be able to have babies. Organs could be cloned for transplants, no more searching endlessly for a donor, just clone one up. Cloning could also be the answer to disease. We could be able to clone bone marrow for those suffering from leukemia; this is expected to be one of the first benefits to come from cloning technology. Cloning may be the cure for genetic diseases (Committee Report). It could ...

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ethical ones. Most people view cloning as taking nature into our own hands. When are people going to draw the line in interfering with the natural course of things (Hawley)? Will society willing to accept a clone as they would someone conceived by a man and a woman. Cloning might deprive a person of being unique. Would a clone suffer emotional problems if they discovered that they were a clone. Constitutional law Scholar Laurence Tribe said, “human cloning would alter the very meaning of humanity.” President Clinton stated cloning “raises deep concerns given our cherished concepts of faith and humanity.”(Heinlen) The possible effects of cloning on the physical and social ...

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