Cloning - right or wrong

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Cloning--right or wrong?

Being a secondary student and a catholic, my opinion on cloning is right and wrong: right to therapeutic cloning using adult stem cells and wrong to reproductive cloning.

Reproductive cloning is to fuse by electricity, a cell from a donor into an egg, which has its nucleus removed, to become an embryo. The clones will have the same genes as the donor. Problems with biologic, religious and ethics came.

        

Clones have a very high risk of abnormalities. Dolly the Sheep died prematurely of severe lung disease, she also suffered from arthritis at an unexpectedly early age. These disease are probably linked to the cloning process. As all clones have the same genes, there is no genetic diversity. When cloning a large amount of animals, these cloned individuals are more likely of harmful genes spreading through the population, and may tend to produce less healthy animals.

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Evolution is how the whole ecosystem develops and God probably creates this. When cloning, we are creating a threat to evolution. With cloning we would create people that wouldn't have been created by nature. Humans are not supposed to play God and control the evolution process. With the techniques of cloning, human can someday live as long as they want. A person could renew his body cells by cloning his body cells and have these cells implanted into the body when he is older. This is offensive to God as he should be the one to determine the length ...

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