Ethics of Human Cloning
Futurist Topics - Cloning
Here are three reasons why we should say no to cloning: most people think that human cloning is not ethical to make a baby.
1. Non ethical health risks from mutation of genes.
An abnormal baby would be a likely tragedy. The technique is very risky right now. A particular worry is the possibility that the genetic material used from the adult will continue to age so that the genes in a newborn baby clone could be - say - 30 years old or more on the day of birth. Many attempts at animal cloning produced disfigured monsters with severe abnormalities. So that would mean creating cloned embryos, implanting them and destroying (presumably) those that look imperfect as they grow in the womb. However some abnormalities may not appear till after birth. A cloned cow recently died several weeks after birth with a huge abnormality of blood cell production.
2. Non ethical emotional risks
A child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, her grandmother is her mother. Her father is her brother-in-law. 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. You will not find a child psychiatrist in the world who could possibly say that there will not be very significant emotional risk to the cloned child as a result of these pressures.
3. Non ethical risk of abuse of the technology.
What would Hitler have done with cloning technology if available in the 1940s? There are powerful leaders in every generation who will seek to abuse this technology for their own purposes. Going ahead with cloning technology makes this far more likely. You cannot have so-called therapeutic cloning without reproductive cloning because the technique to make cloned babies is the same as to make a cloned embryo to try to make replacement tissues. In any case it is a myth that you will get organs from cloned embryos. At best you will get clusters of cells. And at the speed at which biotech is accelerating there will soon be other ways to get such cells. It is rather crude to create a complete embryonic identical twin embryo just to get hold of stem cells to make - say - nervous tissue. Much better to take cells from the adult and trigger them directly to regress to a more primitive form without the ethical issues raised by inserting a full adult set of genes into an unfertilised egg.
Written 1998
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hi, i know nothing
Ethics is just a human emotion and should not be allowed in the scientific community. If we as humans stop at every turn to question why we will never get anything done. And on top of that a clone would have no rights because it was created by science.
upto some extent for the childless couple it is gift
Human Cloning!
Hello, We are doing a sceince lesson about this Crap, and we throught human cloing is bad, But guess what the idiots told Us to do, That we should do a stupid arugument saying that human coloning is gooD! but it's not! Omidayz!
i agree with cloning.
why not? many reasons.... with coning enable do u really need to work/ war/ etc...
clones made...more reserach and stem research can b found..
regards joe
I believe that this is so ethically wrong. Too many things can go wrong, and why make any living thing suffer in the name of science. To me, that is unethical in its self.
Cloning should be illegal, like who th wants heaps of people looking like one another ?? .. Talk about WEIIIRDD!!!
Scientists should just hava blaze and relax! Hahaha!
Let nature take its caaause yu idiots.
btw im doing a speech on this ;
i was looking thru all tha sht on here about 'humabbit' rabbit and human? bro thats just ugly!!! hahahaha
i hope to get merit with tha info from here... its soo unbelievable!! haha
what are the equipments used to cloniing a cell?
for me i am against cloning because its disadventeges is more than its adventeges they want to imitate our great god but actually they will never ever do because they will never ever reach the stage of creating humans they are wasting thier life & time in a silly subject really you are!!!!!!!! try 2 find what are you hahahahahahahahaha
Any complete discussion about human cloning must also address "natural" cloning.
im writing an essay and i was wondering if you had anymore info.
NOB HEADS ! its good ;)
i dont think it is a natural world if there is lots of twins you would get confused about whos who hmmmmmmmm but i think they should bring big mamoths because they are fluffy and you can sleep on them cuz there are some frozon somewere so yerrrrrrrrr i do think its gd cloning animals because yes
What will be the diffrence between a clone and a normal animal. Can an animal be clone whilst it is still alive.
good side
medic orgain made to dna match
baby to people who can't have babys
bad side
army navy air force new men to train forces and
no real human kill in wars head lines and
no soilders pay and they would have no rights.
born to go to war
cloning humans is a rediculos idea. we are made how we are for a reason. thats why we have evolved this way. the natural was of reproduction should be the one and only way!
u are stuuuuupid!!!
this is good for us to know more about it
i am doin human clonin as a case study an i was wonderin if u ad any more info for me thnx ps.. i think its realli wrong it messin wid the clones head
i agree with pretty much everything you guys are saying but come on do you really believe that cloning to can really be stopped all that will have to happen is one great scientist finds away to make a perfect clone and present it and every one will fall for it forgeting all the other problems that comes later i for one am against it but look at the facts
I dont even no what human cloning is about but i think it is all a load of BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
How ignorant.
I wold like to know more about cloning and am looking into the subjest but i still have some questions:
1. if the human clone lives pasted the age of a toddler and the person(s) in charge of the clone had high expations of the cone of a deceased person what would the stress leavles be?
2. will coning research lead to other findings such as individual orgain cloing?
thank you
I have mch to say on this but I will be brief .Did the thought of the true essence of a being not come to mind with the experiments that were just for the sake of an experiment ? AND... Did not any of you scientists and doctors involved think to ask God ???
i studied about cloning, but i con't able get the cjear idea. so please say the answer, clear and detail idea of cloning
Well I think there is loads from me already from the links on this page about my thoughts on human cloning.
hi i am keerthi what is meant by cloning i want answer immeditatly
Cloning is where a cell is taken from an animal or human and the nucleus is combined with an unfertilised egg from which the nucleus has been removed, in order to create an egg which starts to divide to create (if it survives implantation in the womb) an identical twin of the animal or human from which the cell was taken. Lots more on www.globalchange.com about this. also see my YouTube videos on human cloning www.youtube.com
it means everything and nothing at the same time
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Sorry I do not speak Chinese - would you mind for sake of other English speaking readers to give us transkation of what your wrote. Is it just your name?
not sure how helpfull this is because I'm pretty sure this is in the wrong order but i took the time to find an online translater and this is what it gave me.
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Thanks Malissa - well a lot of people would agree with you that human cloning and similar research is an abuse of our stewardship of the earth's resources and a poor use of science.
Please post whatever you like here - arguments for and against cloning etc.
