The Science Of Cloning

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public is against
cloning, politicians will be too, so they can gain support from voters.
Even with all these setbacks, there are still major uses for cloning
research. Uses that will never present themselves unless people put down
their moral, ethical, and religious shields and allow the research to take
its course. Regardless of the majority opinion, cloning is just another
science. It deserves the time and mind straining efforts given by today's
scientists. It doesn't deserve to be shut out or pushed aside because
people are too paranoid to let the future take its course.
Cloning has been around for several years. It has just recently
hit the spotlight with Dr. Richard Seed's announcement that he will start a
project to clone the first human in one and a half years (Krieger 1). With
all the media coverage, the general public's knowledge of cloning has
shifted from nothing to forming biased opinions on a topic they really
still don't have all the facts about. ...

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point,
indeed a crucial point, about cloning as part of IVF is that such
activities would appear to fall within the fundamental freedom of married
couples, including infertile married couples to have biologically related
offspring. If the ability to clone an embryo and transfer it to the uterus
is essential in determining whether that couple will reproduce, then
cloning should receive the same legal respect and protection that other
means of noncoital reproduction receive" (39).

Many scientist use genetic screening to create perfect genomes for
whatever their research might be. The possibility of screening human
embryos for genetic diseases and replacing the disrupted ...

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