Human Cloning Is Beneficial

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The immediate response of the media and even of the president of the United States was hysterical and even more explosive than Wilmut’s announcement about Dolly’s arrival (Reilly 293). Perhaps some people ask themselves, why Dr. Seed, a physicist with no laboratory facilities, garnered so much attention? In fact, it does not matter what Dr. Seed can or cannot do, human cloning can be pursued in private clinics, no matter what government and scientists say (Stock 61).
One of the strongest reasons why cloning should no be banned is the potential to solve the problems with fertility. The desire to have a biological child is deeply ingrained impulse. No one has the right to tell people that they should not be able to have their own child. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? It is desire to most of the couples to have children and when is impossible, some are willing to do anything to have one.
In the book “Engineering The Human ...

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researches and studies show that cloning can be used to stop hereditary diseases by getting rid of defective genes and replacing them with new ones that do not carry the disease (Arthur 2). Human cloning would help couples who carry HIV virus, mitochondrial diseases and etc. to create children who would not carry these diseases. By removing a nucleus from the embryo formed by vitro fertilization, the baby could be created without the inherited disease (Roslin Institute web page).
“The Human Genome Project is about deciphering human heredity” (Stock 18). Scientists are not far from the biggest discovery in science ever and the question is not if but when. The potential of cloning ...

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