Human Cloning: Handle With Care
Suppose one day you could go into a lab and make the perfect human being.
Suppose you could take your own genes and make a copy of them.
Think about the possibilities:
- The chance for childless couples to raise a family.
- The chance for dying patients to harvest the organ they need to save their life.
- The chance for a grieving family to replace their lost child one with another just like them.
Sounds amazing, doesn’t it?
And the fact is, since Dolly - the worlds most famous sheep – was cloned , the possibility has become very real.
But we must be careful about this.
This is real science.
It involves real human beings.
And there are risks you take when you start to play God.
Look at some examples in the field of infertility treatment today which have been reported in the news:
- Take the university clinic in that California impregnates women with embryos from couples who haven't given their consent.
- Take the woman who hires a surrogate to have her baby because she doesn't want to lose her svelte figure.
And ask yourself this:
If that’s happening now, what extremes will people go to with this new technology?
If we don’t take care, we are going to end up making babies in ways so wrong that future generations could be in peril.