Essay on cloning - viewpoints of the major religions.

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Essay on cloning

Christianity point of view

Roman Catholicism and other Christian religions believe that the soul enters the body at the moment of start when the sperm and egg unite. They feel harvesting cells for embryonic cloning is equal to live human experimentation and contrary to God's will. Further, they maintain producing cloned zombies that are unlikely to survive close to murder. Some Christian conservatives express concern that cloned embryos would have no soul, since it was, in their view, born outside of God's bounds.

Other Christian traditions like the United Church of Christ do not believe a fertilized ovum constitutes a person. They believe that cloning can be conducted ethically in order to help treat disease and improve the public health.

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Hindu point of view

In the Hindu world, objections to human cloning rise from a different religious belief. All cloning research violates a major principle of Hinduism: doing no harm to other humans. Human cloning experiments, during which a large percentage of the clones die ahead of time or have serious birth defects, obviously violate this principle. Animal cloning, many experts say, would involve the same failure rate. As a result, most Hindus reject all cloning, including human cloning.

Muslims point of view

Muslims also reject the idea of human cloning. Islam’s holy book, the Koran, states that ...

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