Human Cloning: Handle With Care

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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.

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Cast aside for one moment, the possibility that it won’t work. Lets assume it can.

And cast aside for one moment, the deep religious issues that this raises, even though they are very important.

Even if we cast aside those two very significant aspects, we are still confronted with some clear issues that make a compelling case against cloning:

Let’s consider some of them:

First: The awful things that will happen as the process is perfected.

Dolly was only cloned after 276 tries, according to the New Scientist magazine.

You might accept one in 273 possibly normal sheep as a ...

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