To Clone or Not to Clone?

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and animals (Simon Smith). It will allow doctors to “research deeper into diseases such as rapid cell growths of cancer cells and could provide much needed medical donor material such as creating and producing new organs” that genetically match the recipient and will not be rejected by the body (Joseph Farnsworth). It would aide in the regeneration of nerve tissues and other damaged tissues, and improve further studies in genetics, anatomical development, and medicine. Human cloning and advances in genetic manipulation will lead to a greater understanding of the human experience. This will in turn lead to advances in medicine and a growing quality of life throughout the world. Technology is morally neutral therefore demonizing technologies like human cloning ignores the underlying personal and social responsibility that influence all moral decisions.

In the eye's of most religious followers human cloning is taken with many objections. “Many religious followers believe that ...

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procreation. “Cloning allows human control over fertility”, thus man applies a control over future generations (Simon Smith). However, religious followers argue that “only the Lord is worthy of such power” (Heather Brant). For some, cloning violates fundamental religious beliefs on how human reproduction should occur.

Ethical questions have been raised about human cloning. Some objections concern the safety of human cloning experiments because the process of cloning is not yet perfected nor one hundred percent accurate. For example, “it took Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute (the scientists famous for paving the way of cloning) more than 277 ...

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