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Human cloning article last updated 2003.
Supermodels could one day have a whole new human cloning career, selling cells from their bodies to make hundreds of "perfect" human clones for tomorrow's parents. Indeed we could soon clone a supermodel without her knowledge or consent - from a drop of saliva or blood... Indeed a former Playboy model wrote to me on this website offering to sell her own DNA - maybe someone will clone her one day. I hope not.
Human cloning: who is cloning humans and arguments against cloning
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This video explores how human clones are being made - for medical research. Arguments for and against human cloning research. Why some people want to clone themselves or even to clone the dead (and not just cloning pets).
Why investors are moving away from human cloning and why human cloning now looks a last-century way to fight disease.
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Scroll down this page for introductory article to human cloning - at the bottom you will find more useful human cloning resources including video on how to clone humans and useful human cloning links. This site is especially aimed at students needing data for projects, essays, assignments, dissertations, debates on issues relating to human cloning.
"The potential of gene technology is beyond the comprehension of most people today" - Dr Patrick Dixon - Wall Street Journal (E)
Human cloning means designer people with known pedigree. This is the ultimate pedigree child. Cloning of human embryos has already been achieved - see below. Successful cloning of adults has been announced but not yet proven. It is only a matter of time, months or a very few years before human cloning is a reality for anyone with enough cash, willing to take the risks of a hideously malformed or emotionally damaged child.
Human cloning of a baby could have happened more than once last year - how would you know? Human cloning headlines are usually at least two years behind what's really going on - see below. What you really need to be asking is what scientists will be saying in press conferences in 2010 about their human cloning research, talking about work that they actually did in 2005.
What follows was written in 2003 and is important background on human cloning research
One thing is beyond any doubt: despite huge risks, and widespread public condemnation, by January 2001, many different scientists across the world were already locked in a race to clone the first human, as a baby for TV cameras.
Huge amounts of money are at stake in human cloning research. Teams have announced their aim, many people have come forward with offers of eggs, their own adult cells and money - and the US still has no laws to prevent human cloning from happening, nor do most other countries of the world.
The headlines above first came nearer reality on 23 Feb 1997 when world media reported the existence of Dolly the sheep: cloned from an adult. I had predicted the Dolly headline in 1993, in my book The Genetic Revolution. A few days later, the Edinburgh scientists admitted that frozen cells had been used to make Dolly, having seemed to deny it when the story first broke. That meant that animals (and in theory people) could be cloned after death. US scientists also revealed that they had cloned monkeys (using cells from an embryo). The British scientist responsible for Dolly admitted to a Parliamentary committee (6 March 1997) that human cloning could be possible in two to three years (after vigorous denials by many embryologists). I had been saying the same from the moment the story broke.
Made in America, born elsewhere
President Clinton launched an immediate 90 day report into the implications for human cloning as soon as the news of Dolly became public. Norway did the same while the EC urgently considered a response. The news on human cloning experiments exposed the fact that most nations of the world had little or no legislation covering genetic engineering. This has to change.
Clinton announced in May 1997 that human cloning should be banned. He was warmly applauded. However, what he went on to say was that the proposed ban was only for 5 years, and that nuclear transfer experiments (basic human cloning technique) could continue, though not with government money. In other words "Clones may be made, but not born for the next five years". However, Clinton could not even deliver - his own partial ban was thrown out by Congress. Meanwhile UK Parliament in January 2001 made experimental creation of human clones legal, so long as the embryos were made for medical research and destroyed before implantation.
Richard Seed said over two years ago that he was "a few weeks" from his human cloning experiments. He has attracted money and people. I've met him and debated with him on TV. He has been followed by Clonaid, a new human cloning organisation with cash and 300 couples ready to start. Dr Seed declared that he cannot be stopped from human cloning under current US law, and if human cloning laws are changed he will move the work to Mexico. He has announced a human cloning lab for Japan - purchase of land and $15 million backing. Every week there is another mammal cloning headline. Dolly the sheep gave birth to a healthy lamb, Bonny. In July 1998 came rumours of a cloned mouse, Mickey, created by Dr Ryuzo Yanagimachi, University of Hawaii. In November 1998, we heard that Japanese scientists had already cloned cows from milk - cells in the milk. If you want to see the staggering pace of human cloning announcements - check out our human cloning news summary.
As I say, remember that what you hear today is not what is going on now, its already old history. And some scientists in the field are determined to keep it that way. Hence you only knew about Dolly's creation when she was already 7 months old - more on this below. Another example of secrecy was the extraordinary announcement by Advanced Cell Technology, Massachusetts on 12 November 1998 that three years previously they managed to take the nucleus from a human cell from Dr Jose Cibelli and insert it into a cows egg. The human genes activated and the egg began to divide. They destroyed it at the 32 cell stage, well on the way to becoming a Dr Cibelli's clone. This research was more spectacular than Dolly, yet carried out years earlier with a total news blackout. More recently in March 2001 Australian scientists said they had been carrying on similar secret human cloning experiments using human cells and pig eggs for over two years. What I want to know is this: what are they doing today that they won't be talking about till 2002 or 2003 or perhaps 2004?
The public has a right to know
It has been good to see truth about cloning begin to prevail, after deliberate under-playing of the news by so-called "experts" in a damage limitation exercise to prevent destruction of their research grants by public demand. They have been scared by public reaction. They think the public has no real understanding and so these matters should be kept from the public eye, discussed only by scientists and ethical committees. But these committees are dominated by the industry.
What will be the next human cloning headline? You can be sure that we will see a continuous stream of new revelations now that has become politically acceptable for scientists to come out of the woodwork and talk about these things.
"I want to clone my dad and have him as a baby"
Just before the announcement of Dolly the sheep, someone e-mailed me asking if she could clone her dead father. The answer of course is yes, so long as living cells have been kept in culture, taken from before death, or have been frozen in an appropriate manner. She is also willing to be cloned herself. These are important issues, not science fiction. I had another e-mail from a man offering to volunteer to be cloned. Scott writes "Do you need any volunteers for human cloning experiments?"
Let me make it absolutely clear that I am opposed to human cloning on ethical grounds. It is open to gross abuse. It undermines the uniqueness of the individual and raises profound religious and ethical questions.
Three reasons not to clone: (Press here for more)
1. Health risks from mutation of genes - an abnomal baby would be a nightmare come true. Huge risks of mutations - of a monster. Just look at what has happened in animal experiments. You can't always spot the mutations or developmental abnormalities by gene testing, nor by ultrasound scans, until after birth.
2. Emotional risks - child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, her grandmother is her mother. Every time her mother looks at her she is seeing herself growing up. Unbearable emotional pressures on a teenager trying to establish his or her identity. What happens to a marriage when the "father" sees his wife's clone grow up into the exact replica (by appearance) of the beautiful 18 year old he fell in love with 35 years ago? A sexual relationship would of course be with his wife's twin, no incest involved technically.
3. Risk of abuse of the technology - see below.
Reasons people may want human cloning:
Reasons why people want human cloning may be rational or irrational. That is not the point. The fact is that a recent US survey conducted by CNN found that 6% of US citizens think human cloning could be quite a good idea. Judging by people who leave comments on this website, the reasons may vary widely. Here are a few:
- Recover someone who was loved - a twin, a reminder.
- Infertility - rather than use donated sperm and eggs, why not use a cell of your own to give birth to "yourself", your own twin?
- Eugenics - an attempt to improve the human race.
- Megalomania - a desire to reproduce one's own qualities.
- Spare parts - using a cell from your own body to duplicate yourself. Take tissue e.g. bone marrow, then offer baby for adoption.
- Assisting medical research
- Just curiosity
Cloning the living and the dead
Human cloning has always caught the public imagination. We now have the technology to take a few cells from a modern day Einstein, or a musical genius or a child prodigy and to create hundreds of cloned babies which have exactly the same genes. Of course, as identical twins, clones will have individual differences, separate identities - separate souls. However, studies of twins raised apart show remarkable similarities. There is more in our genes than we often realise.
Just think how attractive that could be to some dictator who fancies the idea of watching himself growing up, or dreams of populating the world with a new race of genetically superior people.
We will almost certainly be able to clone the dead too, from cells taken from their bodies before they die and kept alive in culture. This is a standard technique. In this way parents could "reproduce" a carbon copy of a child who tragically died. Dolly the sheep was made using frozen cells. (Clonaid claimed in January 2003 that they had cloned the dead son of a Japanese couple who had been killed in an accident).
For years, many scientists have been telling us that human cloning was impossible, and would never be possible. How wrong they all were. It is absurd for geneticists and embryologists to mock and stifle debate by dismissing vital issues as "science fiction". As we have seen recently, yesterday's science fiction is today's reality when it comes to genes. We can hardly keep pace with the lightning advances being made.
....will we ever ?
In 1993, the Mail on Sunday described my meeting in the 1980s with a leading British scientist who claimed he had cloned human embryos by artificial twinning. He had separated cells shortly after fertilisation in a process mimicked by nature some 4,000 times a day somewhere in the world. Each cell had the potential to become a new embryo. Over 15 years later, this scientist has yet to go public about his early experiments.
The reaction from leading embryologists in 1993 was swift and damning. They said that it was impossible in humans, and anyway, who would wants to do it? This was despite the fact that artificial twinning was already a standard breeding technique in other mammals, and that natural human twins have been around since the beginning of human existence. Indeed, 4,000 identical twins are born every day somewhere in the world. It is a proven technology. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence could see that artificial acceleration of the natural twinning process should not only be possible, but also able in theory to produce healthy children. Thus the protestations were particularly silly, but swallowed by the media with hardly a question.
Artificial trimming of human embryos in 1993
Just five months later Jerry Hall of Washington University announced that he too had managed to artificially twin identical human embryos in a process that has always been perfectly legal in Britain, although requiring a licence. The embryos he used were defective and were destroyed shortly after the experiments. Nevertheless, his work caused public outcry.
The event was reported in scientific language as part of a research paper in a journal but the significance was completely missed. The trouble is that genetics is complicated and understood by only a few journalists in any depth. Perhaps that is why the BBC decided when the news broke about Dolly the sheep that the story should not be covered at all because it was not news. This bizarre line was held for half a day after I first telephoned Press Association and the Sunday Telegraph to tell them that another paper was about to run the story on the front page. The Sunday Telegraph responded at 9pm Saturday night by stopping the paper and redoing their own front page. Press Association ran two pages on it, sent all over the world. Within an hour television companies globally were beginning to wake up. Within 48 hours President Clinton was issuing emergency measures having been shocked by what was possible under US law.
Human cloning for new organs
One reason people have given for doing this kind of research is to make spare parts in the future. Once an embryo has been twinned, one embryo can be implanted and allowed to develop into a baby, while the other is frozen.
If the child later develops an illness such as leukaemia, then the frozen twin could be thawed and implanted into a surrogate mother, to be culled for spare parts after a few months' gestation. You and I may react against such ideas, but when sick or dying children are involved, pressures can be enormous to do all that is scientifically possible. Parents are very persuasive. Who can stare a beautiful child in the face and try to explain about ethics in the face of possible death, about statistical chances and moral dangers ? These things are extremely difficult and genetics is making choices more complex still.
A number of steps have already been taken. For example, tissue from aborted foetuses is already used to treat adults. Time-warp twins have already been born - non-identical twins conceived in the laboratory on the same day, but implanted 18 months apart. And it is not unknown for a mother to agree to have another child for the express purpose of providing much needed transplant material for the older child. Spare part production from clones would extend these principles.
For some time, I have speculated that we would be able to go further: instead of merely producing artificial twins identical to each other but not to their parents, we would one day be able to produce several hundred identical children, just using human eggs and cells from an adult (nuclear transfer).
This too was dismissed out of hand as alarmist and fanciful by leading authorities, despite the fact that such experiments had already been carried out successfully in frogs as long ago as 1952. Frogs are easier than mammals to manipulate which is probably why we heard in 1997 of headless frogs rather than headless sheep. The truth is that when it comes to cloning of mammals there has been at times a deliberate conspiracy of silence. At the very moment of such protestations, advanced experiments of varying kinds were already taking place in utmost secrecy.
Make no mistake: gene technology has the power to cure, feed, alter and destroy us, and many scientists are scared of a massive public reaction which could stop their work - if you find out what they are up to. There is a reluctance to tell the full story until afterwards.
Scientific announcements can be long after events
When it came to cloning Dolly the sheep, why was there no press statement a year before about what they were hoping to do? Dr Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh told me during a World Service interview that one reason for delay was to file a patent. Gene technology is big business, and cloning is worth millions. The cloning announcement was initially valued by the city at $60 million - the amount by which the PPL shares rose on the days following the announcement.
At the time I said the next step (soon) would be cloning of adult mammals. Once again there was a chorus of indignant reaction from the cloning industry with the usual comments "No one would want to" or "It can't be done". They are wrong. The fact is that at the very moment that these comments were being made, the Roslin Institute was already well advanced in such adult cloning techniques. Hence a year or so later, we heard not only that they had succeeded, but that the lambs were already six months old. The time to debate these matters is not a year or more after an experiment, but before the process begins.
Cloning human embryos for research
Some scientists claim that cures for certain diseases will only be found by cloning human embryos for research. Investors are not convinced: since UK Parliament approved human cloning for research there have been less than five applications. One was a research facility in Newcastle, the other was the Edinburgh creators of Dolly. Neither facility succeeded in raising enough funds and most of the work quickly ground to a halt.
The fact is that cloned human embryos have been left behind by huge advances in adult stem cell research, which has attracted large amounts of research funding.
Research in secret
Secrecy continues. The other day after a media related discussion on cloning humans, a leading British infertility specialist confessed to me privately that he was carrying out experiments himself on animals relating to human medical research that would raise serious ethical questions in the public mind if the experiments became known. He made it very clear that he had no intention of letting the public know because a reaction would endanger his work. He claimed it was not really in secret because he had talked to an ethical committee about it.
As I said to him, what disturbs me is that people like him appear to say one thing in public, on the media, and another the moment the cameras are turned off. There is an inconsistency which undermines trust and destroys credibility. Certainly when it comes to cloning as we have seen the track record of honesty is not good among so-called "experts".
We are also seeing ever more bizarre methods of reproduction. It has been announced that a pair of embryonic children are growing up inside the same womb, with five parents between them. Angela is a surrogate mother who is pregnant with the foetuses of two different couples. This has resulted from research by the same doctor who was responsible for the birth of a child two year's after its mother's death in 1995. Angela is 35 years old, living in Rome. She has not been paid a fee.
Ability to alter life on earth
Since we now have the ability to alter life on earth, we had better think hard about the kind of world we want. It is no good simply reacting to today's headlines with dismay and revulsion. We must push ahead of the news to debate the future. We do not have much time. We must also resist the temptation to a black and white approach. Many of the issues are complex, and gene technology has tremendous power for good if properly used.
The question is: where do we draw the line? In the last 24 months, more than a million new animals with mutant genes were born in British laboratories alone. Each is a "transgenic" mix of genes from two or more different animals, eg., mouse and rabbit or monkey and rat. Genes from humans are already working in microbes, fish, rabbits, mice, pigs, sheep and cows. Some of these humanised pigs may be providers of heart transplants in the future.
How many human genes does an animal need to have to gain human rights?
Pigs have a tiny amount of human genes, but a richer mix could be made. Geep have already been born - half sheep and half goat. What about combining humans and monkeys to make a half and half breed? This is not difficult. All you have to do is combine two balls of growing cells in the pre-embryo stage. Human and rabbit cells have already been combined to make a humabbit - announced late in 2000. Fortunately, only a few human embryo cells were added to the rabbit embryo - which was born looking exactly like a normal rabbit but with a mixture of human cells throughout its brain, skin, bone, kidneys, liver, eyes and heart.
Will humonkeys be recognised as morally responsible individuals before the law if they are able to talk? Monkeys and humans share most of their genes in common anyway. Will theologians decide that humonkeys are able to receive salvation like the rest of us?
We need a global agreement on cloning laws
We cannot go on like this, lurching from one sensational headline to another. We urgently need a comprehensive Gene Charter with global agreement on how this technology should be used. Too many decisions about this technology are controlled by specialist committees dominated by scientists involved in or sympathetic to the work.
There is a huge ethical vacuum. We do not need bombastic moralistic statements, but rather a common-sense view, based on principles which the whole community can support and understand. Two foundation stones should be respect for the uniqueness and mystery of human life, and care for future of the planet. So far decisions made have been pragmatic rather than based on higher values. The church has a vital role to play.
Now we know what can be done; the question is: what should we do? Are these doors that should be opened? A Nobel prize winner who helped develop nuclear science has said he fears a new generation of smart viruses could wipe us all out. But this is just another aspect of the same thing.
The lesson of history is that whatever is possible will be tried somewhere by someone at some time but this is no excuse for sitting back. Whilst it is true that laws cannot prevent catastrophe or crime, they do help define the boundaries of acceptable behaviour and make deviation less common.
Politicians are populists. They tend to go with the flow of public opinion on things like human cloning which in turn is often swung by media debate. That is why it so vitally important that people from every walk of life take every opportunity to contribute to the human cloning media debate.
What kind of future do you want?
The choice is ours. We cannot ignore gene technology, nor should we condemn all of it, although there should be a complete ban on human cloning. The key is proper regulation - not just in the UK but world-wide. We need an urgent UN-sponsored global summit on biotechnology followed by international agreement. Either we control gene technology today, or gene technology will redesign us by tomorrow.
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i believe that people should be able to clone then we can have someone go to school for us but then again the population will grow and we already have enough people in the world! but i believe i would clone myself so i can be two places at once.
A lot of peopel think that cloning is okay. some people think it's wrong. i'm on of the people taht think it's very wrong. i also don't get why they clone and they still worry about over population. i mean, c'mon now! and since cloning is banned from the united states, the scientists are going to other countries just to clone. ugh.
cloning should be against the worlds law! if you agree,reply below and say i agree. :)
i was against human cloning but after i read this articles i strongly agree cloning:-D what if i have another me the life will be better, so am with human cloning
i think cloning is wrong.... for humans
because things will just overturn and we are over populated as it is...
so star killing people.
sure they have a right but when dew those come into act?
after we die?
Think about the future. If you want to clone yourself, first think about the amount of money it would cost even if has been around for years. and its not like your mind stays the same, your mind will die, its just your body thats left behind, so no matter what some part of you still dies. and to clone yourself to fix a medical problem you have, that makes sense but to create a life to kill it for yourself, even if it is yourself, its not ethical. besides, there is always a downside to technology and it could get in the wrong hands a we could get to carried away. we need to accept the way nature, science, God, whatever you belive in made the way Life, humans and all are ment to live and die.
I don't think people should clone other people. It could cause a major drop in intelligence. We could go around and clone people and then send the clones to school and make clones of geniuses and everything, but then the clones would know everything and people woul just go say, "oh dont learn anything let the clone do it" and nobody except the clones would know anything and then they could kill us because we wouldnt know anything.
Cloning overall is just against everything I believe in. Going against what God created and cresting whatever one pleases in not really all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, it could supposedly create more people for this planet, and have a scientific breakthrough, but look at the population now. We are reaching almost 7 billion people, and if we cloned just one person for every person on this planet, that number would double to 14 billion. We honesty do not need that many people, we are running out of resources as is. Also, the threat it could cause to the human race, if the tests are not successful, could be dramatic. Who knows, maybe the clones could appear healthy at first, but then end up with heart diseases, just like Dolly the sheep. It’s just wrong.
i believe cloning is right in some ways because im so beautiful and i was heaps of mee :)
The equation of cloning a young or old person is of customary importance for the cloning of human beings in the future.In the case of a young man to have e replica of yourself while you are alive has very acute moral and ethical implications but for an old man the cloning do not imply such implications if the cloning in this case takes place after the old man is dead at the best.In the latter case i am not sure if the embryonic cells of the old man are appropriate to make an healthy replica.In everyday life we know that men older than 70-ty marry young women and make healthy babies.I am very curious to know how it works in the case of cloning.I would be very happy if Mr.Patrick will find the precious time to give me an answer to this very important question.I think this question deserves an answer.Dear Sir,Mr. Patrick you can send me an e-mail or publish your opinion in this web-sight.
I don't think people should be cloned, but if there was a way to grow an single organ than that would be fine. My question is, how does cloning whole people help society?
why come i cant find the part where you sign up for cloning yourself.i want to clone me
Cloning is wrong and stupid. Not by religious reasons ( i don't believe in god), but by the fact its insane. As someone said the Nazis are responsible for a lot of the information we have that lead to the possibility of cloning. Do we really want to end up being corrupt like them? Because as we all should know humans are no where near perfect we can be sinister and malicious. I can say right now with an absolute certainty that the world will eventually end up in an evil dictatorship of some sort run by an asshole on a power trip caused by cloning the power to manipulate and control lives cloning important political figures and using them as your own personal puppet. Cloning just can't be we as humans would not be able to handle the power that comes with it.
The humankind will not be able to reproduce itself properly in the future.For that reason the human cloning will get at the play.But the interesting thing is that at one point in the future the humankind would be able to create in a natural way a certain prototype of a human being that will represent the mixing up of the races that exist nowadays in the world.Based on this advantage the scientist will try to create a human being that will be able to endure the hardships of a living in the cosmos.What is a science fiction today will be a reality tomorow.
Human cloning must be a matter of the future.Every attempt to clone human beings in the near future will be catastrophic for humankind.
Every coin has two sides. Cloning can be used for good only. It depends on us how to use it. There should be some limitations on it. Laws can be made so that its use would not be harmful. Its the 21st centuary technology is used to make things better than it was. We should be strong enough to face all its problems as well as achievments and try to overcome the problems.
When you think of human cloning do think “if I had a clone I could get more done in one day.” Maybe you think you could use your clone as an organ donor. Or perhaps you would like to clone a deceased love one so you don’t have to live with the pain. If you have thought any of these things let me tell you that you are dead wrong about cloning.
Identity is one of the most important things a person can have. Everyone strives to be unique. Not only do our differences make us special the play a much bigger role in life. Our differences add to the biodiversities of the human population. Thanks to diversity everyone is genetically equip to survive a different disaster. A loss of diversity would make the human species less likely to survive a disaster. Clones would surely cause loss of diversity. Whether you like it or not, death is the most important part of life. Death keeps population down and completes the circle of life. To make a clone to replace the deceased would cause overpopulation, loss of resources, disease and famine.
Currently cloning, both human and animals, is very risky. Most clones come out with crippling, hideous and life threatening abnormalities. Clones are more likely to die younger. Clones are prone to genetic mutation. It would take many attempts to get the clone to be perfect. It is a known fact that Hitler gathered must research on twins. This suggests that he was interested in cloning technology. Image what he wanted that technology for and imagine if he got it. Although we no longer have to worry about Hitler getting his hand on cloning we should still worry about the future. If a tyrant gone his hands on cloning the world would never be the same.
One factor people often forget is the clone itself. Just because a clone is born in a lab does not make it sub-human. There is no doubt that a human clone would experience prejudice. Not to mention the religious and legal question involved in cloning. To make matters worst if a clone is made to replace a deceased love one imagine to pressure put on that child. The child would feel as if he or she must be just like the person he or she was cloned from. The irrational decision to clone the dead would be made by someone delusional with grief. But the worst reason of all to make a clone is so you clone can be your organ donor. To kill a clone for its organs is barbaric. It is like killing your own twin just so you can have a new liver.
At first look cloning appears to be a good idea but anyone who does the smallest amount of research in a credible source will see no good can come from cloning humans, or any thing for that matter. Cloning goes against nature and most religions. I can’t think of and good reasons to clone but I can think of a hundred reasons not to. Natural birth is ‘the miracle of life’ but cloning is the scientific equation of life.
I think Cloning can be a great help to those who are sick and dieing, if they could grow human organs, they could save someone's life that needs a heart or other organ.
Thank you.
This information is very useful.
I think about cloning because of this writing.
good information:-)
I'm a 49 year old man who has never been married, and never had a child. I think circumstances of environment prevented me from ever passing on my genes so that something of me will continue in the gene pool after I am gone. I think I have some characteristics worthy of continuation and of course the knowledge and wisdom of a lifetime to pass on though knowing me he wouldn't listen much. There is also my accumulated possesions and wealth that I would like to pass on to the younger me that goes on. If I had reproduced in the normal way I could be content with that but cloning myself would be a fair replacement for that. Maybe my clone will find the domestic bliss I never did. My genes, my families genes will move on into the future.
I believe that human cloning should be considered not only could it be helpful for future organ transplants, since its become impossible for some organ donors to wait for an organ transplant. I also believe that it should be up to people if they want to participate in cloning for reasearch purposes not to do it for some stupid reason as for clonng someone because you want that person or child. It should be considered as a medical advanced technique to help in many ways to improve the many diseases humans now face, their are many disease we face today that maybe this reasearch can be helpful to humans and finally find some kind fo cure for some illnesses. I am willing to be a donor if needed for cloning may it be my eggs or tissue or plasma whatever it can be needed in order to make this possible for any kind of human scientific reaearch of any kind. The way i see it we are here on borrowed time why not make a difference that can help someone else or ones relative or anyone who needs medical help . So please consider the possibilities that could help anyones or someone else to find a cure for the ones who my not be able to survive because someone did not believe that their could be a reaserch of this kind that could eventually help save people. Don't think of it as going agaisnt god this is an issue that does not have to do with god or religion or any belive, God created us and all living things but he also has people creating researches of many kinds that exist today so sif he has created us and their is research being done then why not give this research a chance to prove that it can become a possibility to make a difference in our future as well as our childrens future or anyone.
Save lives, advance technology, CLONING! *thumbs up*
i would like to have clone but also by having clones, the clone could do muder and plain it on you
i heard about cloning i think its true that cloning is exist because if they don,t exist why there is some people you think are they but they not....
and if someone think its stupid then im not think its stupid because you can use it if you want to have a brother or sister just look like you!!!!
then who man who made that machine your so smart but why did you go on suicide?
go get a life and stop blogging people for a living no one cares but to rohit i feel youre pain its ok im sure someone loves you
I am all for human cloning as long as its the creme of the crop of the field being cloned. Examples: John Lennon, Michael Jackson....both at the top of the list. Einstein and other great minds.
The only problem with cloning someone like Micheal Jackson or Einstine is that the clone WOULDN'T be the same as they were, because it is impossible to recreate the same environment and events that made them who they were.
Going against God's will. Recreating something he's already created. That's completely wrong. It's not only bad in religious terms. It's bad and wrong in every way. Whoever creates a clone and destroys in. That's called murdering. Your a murdered. And don't say your doing it for the sake of science. Your a murdered. I don't see how scientists are getting away with any of this. Cloning Humans ? Insane. I mean cloning like organs that maybe useful but who wants a cloned organ in their body. Grosssss. Think about it. I may only be 16 but this is completely ridiculous. Cloning HUMANS. If you were to clone lets say a lost loved one they wouldn't be the same person you lost. They never will eever be the same person you knew. God has a plan for everyone and when they die they die. It's not right to bring them back by cloning there cells and creating them becasue it won't really even be them, just someone who looks like them. That's about it !
many people have different ideas about cloning but which one is right. I guess it just based on what we have went through. some just need to pray.
we could clone a superior soldier over and over again to make a superior army and no real men would have to die. Ycan't we do that. i hate war.
When people start wanting designer human beings or wanting to clone themselves for the sake of it then i completely disagree.
However, I think that for research cloning stem cells is extremely important as many people i knew may not have died if the resources had been there to save them from genetic diseases.
I want people to understand that cloning research could eventually save millions of lives.
another thing, I am a Christian and i still believe that cloning (for medicine and research) is fine and should be encouraged.
Cloning is a very controversial topic yet I don't disagree with it. I think we've focused so much on the cons that we've failed to appreciate the pros. I understand the ethical issues tied to cloning but what is the criterion for deciding whether or not we are violating ethics? Are the anti-cloning critics against cloning because of Biblical proof that goes against cloning? If so, where is this proof? Perhaps, if we give cloning a chance we may discover a few cures for some of our most devastating diseases.
I do see your argument that he looked at a lot of the cons, however, what pros can you see? In order to decide upon an ethical standard, we have to submit to an ethical standard maker, God's Ethics laid out in His word, and no ethics are not relative because if they were someone chould choose for it to be ethically right for them to kill someone else. We know that to be wrong, how? God's ethical standard. Then you come to the question, is cloning wrong by God's ethical standard. The answer is, I don't know. God does not say anything that I am aware of that speaks for or against what we know as cloning. Since there is nothing in the Bible, that I'm aware of, against it, I have some personal things against it. One, if cloning is done in the sense of the movie The Island, where humans are coloned so that they can be harvested for their organs, then we are not making another human but a product, and when you start selling and buying humans then you are infringing on human rights laid down by the state. I hope you read this and reply soon I would like to hear from you again.
Ok I'm wanting to Clone A Guy I love still & want to Marry but Hes already married & has kids . I'm wondering if I can Clone him as he is now A young 26 or 27 year old guy & start my life as I know it should be With him but only With A Cloning of Him ..lol is there A possible way that Embryo's of A clone can be Aged to the persons Age as they are Now .
I'm 27 yrs old & i would Love to be with Him , But Can't . so Cloning him possibly as he is Now & starting my Life & Marriage with The Clone would almost be as if I have him .
You are a freak...
You would be marrying a baby and you would be forcing this kid to fall in love with you i personally think he would hate you for having him cloned.
i think cloning is creepy. think of if you saw someone that looked exactly like you?
i would be totally creeped outtt..
but i think it is pretty cool, too(:
clone me one million times and all i ask is to to observe them and give me e nuff money to to get a life startid for me self
i r 4 hooman clonin!!!!!!!! i leik teh idae of clonin. it r cooool *smiley face* :). i leik teh fud clonin 2. .......fud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!nomnomnomnomnomnomnomnomnom. get awai arbiter, u 4 men lolololololololololololol.
I think that cloneing is okay just as long as you dont use the clone as a meat puppet
Umm hi. Cloning is soo stupid whats the point!??!?!?!?
The only reason i am at this site is cuz im doing this for a project and i have to be 4 cloning but it still doesnt chang the fact ITS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO WOULD WANT 2 OF THEMSEVLES?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
IM NOT FOR CLONING!!!!!!
the only reason we need cloning is if we r bout out of food and then we can clone food!!!
nothing more than that
Yum yum clone food sounds good! Not. cloning could save human lives.
mm baby
Learn some grammar, God.
Red Magix
I don think cloning is a gud thang, but lets put it this way, why do pple die if cloning is gud, God wud not let anybody die, he wud send sumbody to clone thm b4 they die,
I love my God n I dont want pple to clone, their r making my God damn mad....
if u think its gud then go ahead n clone, but i dont think its gud so i wud not even try doin sumthing lyk dat
Lets give God sum respect
If "god" didnt want cloning why did he allow dolly the sheep and why would he let mice. i doubt your "god" can talk to you so how can you know if he is mad or not, to be honest we've had enough profits, we dont need another rambling idiot who had a dream and thought god spoke to them, get legit facts that god is angry and everyone will beleive you untill you do, good luck getting people to beleive you.
learn to spell and spoke right. god created man to think and act for themselves. If we can clone then god obviously gave us the power to do so. I hate when people throw god into things to make themselves feel better about the world
I don't care if people die of diseases... Maybe they diserve it... Deal with it people die... Cloning is stupid..... GO JESUS!
Jesus is my mum and he said cloning is good. Just kidding he isn't real.
Ignorant much?
Gday,
clonning is the new century of technology..live it and accept..if u want to live with the rules of religious, then dont even use a computer (modern tech). Learn and accept because clonning will be the new tech in life, and many more research can be found such as cancer etc...NOOBS for those who dont agree with clonning
No,you aren't right!Many of us,so many people from all over the world dont't agree to human clonning,not because of religious aspects,or because they want to live with the rules of religious as you state.They don't agree to that fact as I don't too because we think aboute the bad sides of human clonning...And you should know that there are such many risks!!!!!!For instance,scientists do not know exactly how clonning could impact mental development.While factors such as intellect and mood may not be as important for a cow or a mouse,they are crucial for the development of healthy humans.So,with so many unknowns concerning reproductive clonnining,the attempt to clone humans at this time is considered poteneially dangerousðically irresponsible.
First of all you sound stupid yourself for insulting people calling them 'noobs'. You've already noticed and pointed out to everyone whos read this post that the argument is weak cause your already using insults just to get your point across.
Clones could be used for cancer, but it would be out of such cruelty they are still human with feelings and emotions. And than identities could be stolen and confusion would be created.
THIS would also cause more global warming, the population is already growing out of controlling without the problem of cloning and it's disadvantages with it.
I am strongly against cloning. First, if you used a clone just for tissue such as bone marrow, you have 3 choices with the clone after that. Kill it, keep it, or give it up for adoption. If the clone did have feelings, like some cloning supporters are saying, dont you think they would hate the fact they were a clone that was brought into this world just for a transplant? Seriously folks, we need to think about all of the engineering tradeoffs with cloning. Look at the dark side of things when its a big decision. You cant just look and say it could be used for transplants. Think about what happens after that. Listen to me please, and THINK!
won't the clone be happy that they experienced life even they were just clones??? i guess clones are brought to live,, really.. if people would just want transplants, then, they can do try embryonic stem cell for their new organs..
Hiiiiiiii
My name is Klayerrrr and I appeared on the recent hit MTV show: "True Lyfe: I am a Clone". Basically, cloning is real.
I am real.
I am a clone.
End of story.
Good
bye.
Hmmm - bit late for April fools day.
really?
ur lying
no .............................
you weren't on MTV because I've seen like every episode .
so go GET SOMME.
if a person is alive wther is a clone or not is menat to live as everybodyelse, if we kill that clone than we should be considered criminals, the clone might also have feelings and also feels pain.
I believe that it is not possible to predict future technology! While we can see trends and extrapolate existing concepts and idea's in the short term, history has taught us that almost all future developments manifested themselves from a place where no one expected it to come from! Case in point is the LCD display which was developed in the 1960's by RCA and licensed to Sharp! Prior to the invention of the LCD there was not even speculation of the use of a liquid crystal as a light valve! The technologies to developed the device came together at one specific time to create the device most of which were not predicted to exist!
Point being that 10 years before the development of the display technology it was not even conceptualized! Future manifestations of technology will come from area's know one will even believe possible for a given technology! This comes from the fact that technology development is highly parallel in nature where several technologies arrive at once to create the new technology! I love to try to predict the future! It's fun! But the reality is its never any better than guessing!
Cloning will continue irrespective of any intervention, whether it be religious or ethical. I am not opposed to human cloning as it has tremendous benefits but at the same time it has dangers. The individuals that work on these projects are professionals in their field and should be granted the freedom to do what they do best. The Governments should fund these programs to insure that information is used for the betterment of life and not just the betterment of individuals and basically to have some sort of control.
Cloning is the best way to get our beloved back BUT it is also the best way to icrease the population.
Cloning is for someone who is not more and is beloved by you,
BUT cloning will be afforded by rich people and it will also increase population.
Okay first of all the last three comments that I have read have said something about increasing the population by cloning... here's a fact for you there are an average of 353,015 babies born EVERYDAY, and you think that if we clone we're gonna cause the population to go outa control... news flash even if we perfect the process of cloning it will be MANY MANY years before we can create that many clones in such a short time. Think about it.
Honestly you people who say that cloning will increase the population need to look this kind of thing up before you post it. I did and guess what I found. There are over 350,000 babies born EVERY SINGLE DAY, and I am farely certain that it will be a long time before we can create that many clones in such short time... my prediction would be a few hundred years give or take a little.
i like cloning
its super.
yeap
i think human cloning is wrong
you have to have a better reason thin just its supper because it is wrong you are bring life in this world to kill it...!!!!!!!!!!
I know that you have said that there was talk about a child being cloned in 2007 but seeings how it is now 2009. Have it been proven that a child has been succsessfully cloned and when and where thanks
cloning humans should be outlawed for more reasons than one. first, you are taking an innocent egg that has a 99% chance of making it out of the womb alive, and an even slighter chance of it living with no deficiencies. second, who knows what will become of these clones. i'm pro-life and i do believe in donating organs, but a clone's organs? first, thats clone's organs must match the blood type of the person's who need the organs. even then, what if the person's who had their organs cloned has some kind of whacky disease that no one knows about? and what if that gene gets passed on through their offspring and so on through generations. and what is this deficiancy becomes widespread? Another even worse senario would be if, while in the cloning process, that clones or many other clones develop an irreversable gene that cause all man kind to shut down?
the truth is, we just don't know what will happen with clones. With this statement said, i think that cloning humans, or an other living creature for that matter, should be outlawed.
one idea was that people would THEMSELVES so they cna use the organs of their clone, but that idea is wrong. if people are meant to die well be it we can't make the scenario worst by killing something else for something that was bound to die anyway.
u need to not put some much on here
Cloning should only be done when theres a transplant needed and also we should clone more animals and give the to the people in heidi and africa that have none
im not sure really about this. on one hand i think its immoral then again if i couldnt conceive children or a family member desperately needed say a transplant then i probably would agree to cloning. i wonder if it would be possible to clone a singular organ instead of an entire human. Anyway if human cloning ever happens publicly it will cause a huge clash of views between scientific and religous people.
I also agree that cloning is not right. When the Virgin Mary's appearance to her 'children' she said that the scientists were playing God and that they would be punished for their sins.
cloning is for people of their own sick pleasure
I don't think this is right at all.
You all are wrong.
I don't care about anything you say.
It will always be wrong.
.... dont jus think its bad... wat if u needed a transplant... and u had no doner... wat r u gonna do.... lol if i were u i would consider it.... lol people these days suck wit the ordinary...
we should use these to help the world not make more beings. would a clone have a soul?
is scarlette johanson seriously a clone?!?!?!
No genius, she obviously isn't. You can't just make a clone with the same age as the original. Cloning doesn't work like that.
Human Cloning is a great thing. Some people might like cloning to make another person that looks exactly like them. So i think that human cloning should be allowed in every state.
itsnice
I stumbled upon your website looking for genetic/inoculation testing on us Alaskan Native peoples. May God help us all.
YES SCARLETT GALABEKIAN WAS MY WIFE AND SHE LEFT ME AFTER 3 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, CLONED HERSELF IN THE FORM OF SCARLETT JOHNSSON, AND BECOME HER LESBIAN LOVER. THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT...IT FEELS GOOD TO GET THIS FINALLY OFF MY CHEST!!!
I think cloning should have ago ahead.Which means it must be supported by law.REGISTERING THE existence of every clone and setting grounds to license every GENETICIST WHO TAKE PART CLONING.And hence controls the social vices associated with cloning .
CLONING IS RIDICULOUS! WTF R U ALL THINKING U SAD PEOPLE.
no
it be kool to have a clone of yourself...
I made the clown of myself sometim wen im reely buzy but then i see double and its reely confuzing.
ii believe cloning is not the way to go iif god wanted every body to clone themself then there would of been two of youh.!
although yeah it might seem fun to have your bestfriend as your bro/ or sis or your mom as a sis or your dad as a bro .. or to have a lost one cloned ect. ii dnt think it would solve or help anybody..!!! ii think our world is better off with just one of everybody after all the earth is suffering enough as it is and the economy too WERE IN A RECESSION PEOPLE DONT youh think cloning is way off bored we have alot of problems right now in he US and in other countries yeah alot of people are suffering todaii doesnt anyone WATCH THE NEWS..!!! ii bet these were all teenagers writting to this wat the heck ii am too buht ii would love to have another me or watever buht ii dnt think its right or fair to anyone.. iim just saying its good to have your own identity and being clonned might not even help in the long run it may cause alot of emotions to develope throughtout your family and it may cause health problems in the end dnt believe all what youh read youh might regret it i would never let some stranger take my cells and use it for WHO KNOWS WHAT ..?
this gives everybody sumthin to think about..
First off, if there is a God and He didn't want us to clone things then why would we be able to do it.
Second, if your going to speak English, or any other language for that matter, use correct grammar.
First of all, cloning is not just to have "another me". If you read about cloning you will see that is has the potential to not only save lives through transplants and what not but also to allow research to be done which could cure diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. The main benefits of cloning are for extreme medical cases and conditions and in those cases it could seriously benefit many people. Reproductive cloning on the other hand is useful in some medical cases and in cases of infertility potentially, but DNA cloning and therapeutic cloning are far more beneficial IMO, and they should not be overlooked or grouped together with reproductive cloning. And in case it's not obvious-- CLONING WILL HELP THE US ECONOMY!!! The argument that it would hurt our economy is ridiculous. If we don't pursue cloning other countries are still going to and if everyone else beats us to it, who's economy will be hurting then? Cloning has huge potential economically.
cloning... yeah thats whats up
i think that cloing a human will never actually happen.
It probably will, illegally or not, it most likely will. Cloning isn't a bad thing. Why wouldn't clones have souls? Clones are like twins with a different age. Twins have souls don't they? People who said cloning for organs is bad, why is it? If you were on the verge of dying wouldn't you want to be saved? You never know what you will think unless you were put in that situation.
really this is nice development. I would encourage those scientists to carry on so as to save the genes of those intelligent achievers as well as proffessors of this world.
i think yo cloning b da bomb da shiz it would b of the koookizzle 4 real yall i aint even playin im spit n what i mean dawg
please speak english!!!!!
that is all i have to say.
I JUST WANT MY CLONE
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME
GOD BLESS YOU
May God forgive us all.
yah, he doesnt exist.
There is no god. If there is one and he had some sort of brain he would come down here and tell you NO cloning is bad. He would save us from wars, global warming, etc. I think that cloning is going to be a big thing in the days to come and if it gets banned by people like you then you and your religous zealots are retarded in the highest degree.
You guys are retarted why would god come down and waste his time to tell us not to go into war or not make clones or that were not gonna die?? why would he.. then there would really be no point to free will because we would have to listen to god and besides if god really is real and he talked to us, i know how stupid we all are we would not listen some of us would but i know most of us would just act like stupid teenagers going through puberty..
I know my spellings bad so dont remind me. well I just had another thought. I would love to be cloned so I could have a sister of my own for a change. and I think there should be cat people. but anyways living with a big bro is torture and I just need somone to talk to. just cuz their clones doesn't meen they have the same personality. it would be like a best friend. but they just cant use them as slaves or people to go to school when you dont feel like it. well still good work scientists!
hey i agree with brianna it would be awsome
Personally, if it was between my life, and some of my frozen cells, I would sacrifice the cells and the new life coming from them. Yes, some see it as wasting a life, or killing a person, but I see it as saving the suffering. I think of it this way: you could sacrifice a group of cells that were never a living being, or you could not save a suffering person, in result killing them! In reality, killing someone that does feel, and is already a living being.
You have a very stupid pint of view.
Because we didn't give someone OUR cells, does NOT in fact meen that we KILLED them.
We don't have to save a dying person.
If someone came up to me and said "Will you donate your cells for a person in need?"
I would say No. That doesn't meen I killed them, it means I didn't help save them.
I think cloning is wrong and as if you are becoming a "Play God".
Human cloning is wrong even to save someone. God has a plan for everybody and if it is their time to die then let them die. Death is not a bad thing. Death means (to me) that your time on earth is done and it is time for your judgement before God. Humans shouldn't try to mess with the way of life. That's not our place.
I think u are right Kay but to the two people that said that it is wrong cause of god. HAHA there is no GOD. Read about sciencetolgy (i missed spelled) thats how basically all religons are formed.
Have you heard the saying "God works in mysteryous ways"? What if having the guy cloned and taking his organ to save him is God working through the scientists to save the person. Here is a joke that kinda goes with what I am saying
Jimmy got stranded on a island. Jimmy is a very religous man. The first day a boat comes by and sees him. The captain ask him if he would like a ride with him to Hawaii which is where the captain was going. Jimmy said no and that God works in mysterous ways and will get him off the island. The next day another boat comes by and the captain asks Jimmy if he would like a ride to a port in Japan, and Jimmy replies the same thing. The day after that a Helicopter comes by and the pilot ask the same thing and jimmy goves him the same response. The next day Jimmy dies of dehydration. He goes to heaven and asks God why did you not save me? God replies I sent you two boats and a helicopter, Why didnt u get on one?
I agree with you becuase it is true if we can give some part of us, our cells, tissue or any organ we can help someone else to survive or saving someone who is suffering while waiting for an organ transplant. We are all going to die some day, whether it may be because of a disease, murder,ect. But we can help as donors,some people abuse their bodies in many ways and kill their own cells anyway why not let those good cells in our bodies help in research to help those who cannot produce good cells make a differnce for someone else. the way i see it we are not abusing our lives by becmning donors for research,or donating our cells, organs for reasearch is a good thing. If this is going to help save lives now or in the future i am all for it. I just wish everyone would think the way I do.
huh?.
okay seriously why would the wold make some one up like jesus and adam and eve and stuff like that why?? like every single religion is different but they have the same people so why would people go through all the trouble to invent such lies???? cuz you guys are retarted, its like denying the Holocaust.
think it should be done :) helps people why not :)
cloning is mint boiz
i would like to clone my friend and have her as a sister
that is a load of bull
i dont believe a word of it and i dont believe in cloning either
it is wrong and inhumane
>:-(
human cloning.....
CANT HAPPEN!
:)
george?
is that u?
if it isnt, i still agree with u
:)
dude it already has happened.....
i'm doin a report on it right now....
might as well update yourself about it!!!! hahaha.. it already happened..
yes it can
i think i will help a tone of people in the end.
its alrite 2 clone
another information about clone?please give me full information.
it is wrong to clone
i was working in sharjah uaw qgm group llc. hamriya freezone tecnical director mr tonny brohmam is cloned me using ny dna & they thron mw out when i opposed this .my life is spoiled and rodhni dsouza hr manager is invloved in this . they uswd me as human sevice edditing other network channels using cia scanner my iso file is disclosed
YOU GUYS ARE WRRROOOONNNGGGG!!!!!!!
I'm all for cloning organs, to help with diseases and organ transplants and the like, but seriously cloning yourself in able to gove birth to a reprudtion of your ugly self? nawwww blud. get some nice ideas yeah?
dickheads
Hello dear ladies and gentlemen!
I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian, who has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. Original person is very nice (not d**n sexy),most important - CHRISTIAN young lady! I'll tell you more,those clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, North Bavaria, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity. But warning! Helmut Kohl clone staff 100% controlling all their clones (at least they trying) spreading around the world, they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones, so be careful get close with clones you will be controlled as well. Original person is not happy with those movies, images, video, rumors and etc. spreading on media in that way it would be really nice if we all will try slow down that ''actress'' career development, original Scarlett will really appreciated that. Please remember that original Scarlett's family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created it was stolen and it is stolen. It all need to be delivered to authorized personals control in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Original Scarlett is not engage, by the way!
Her close friend Serge G.
P.S.
H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more. These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and Germany, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.
ok.
this is just making me laugh really hard.
that is totally wrong.
she played in a movie like that...?
so you must really have an imagination...
so grow up.
that is not true.
so leave her alone...
they shoundent because there could be sideafects.
