Many people will argue that “Human Cloning” is safe and not dangerous, but I however want to persuade you that “Human Cloning” is not safe; in fact it is not safe to clone any species as was proven through Dolly the Sheep. Dolly was a female sheep and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell which is used to biologically form the body organism. Dolly was a grown using cells and then scientifically implanted into a Fin Dorset female Sheep. Dolly was born on the 5th of July, 1996. Although deemed a success, Dolly on lived a short period of time for average sheep, she lived till she was six years old – dying in 2003. The scientist that helped create Dolly argued that she had severe arthritis, which caused her death. But after many investigations and a post mortem examination it was revealed that Dolly suffered from Internal Lung Cancer, which was common in many sheep breeds. Dolly’s breed, the Fin Dorset sheep, has a life expectancy of eleven to twelve years, so many speculate that she also died of a genetically age life expectancy of six years which means that Dolly’s was only meant to live till she was six. So to bring my point forward, what would happen if humans were cloned? The biggest worry that many people have in today’s society is that if scientists are able to clone humans, the cloned human could have many problems and suffer a short life, but even more people argue that it would have an effect on the man and women offering their cells to be cloned.
One of the stranger reasons that I want to bring forward is the idea of body replacements which in my opinion is bizarre and totally unnecessary. In recent years there have been many cases of scientists trying to grow a body for someone who has recently been deceased, meaning the transplantation of the brain from the deceased body into the cloned body. It is now thought of only as science fiction, yet it may someday be a possibility in the distant future. While it will always be unethical to kill another human to save another person’s life, What if the cloned human body replacement did not have a brain and was intentionally designed that way from the beginning? It is all so preternatural to think about, a loved one passing away but then their brain being transplanted into a cloned body replacement. Imagine how the family of the family would feel, knowing someone they loved will return in a new cloned body replacement. This, to me would just simply be weird and upsetting for any person to handle.
A further reason to put across is the fact that scientists would be playing god in the process of cloning a human. This moral mainly occurs depending on what religion you are following. Many people feel wary of cloning for this reason; yet some people think that “Playing God” is exactly what god wants us to do, that we “Humans are meant to be co-creators; partners with in the furthering creation of the world”. The Christian community is probably the most affected by “Human Cloning” in terms of religion in today’s world. First they believe that human beings are created in God’s image and only God’s image, therefore each person is unique. Genesis 1:26-27 from the holy bible asserts that “man is created in God’s image and likeness and is unique among all creations”. This shows that human life is something that has to be valued and has not to be treated like a commodity, which is bought and sold in many different ways. If humanity in the future was created by cloning, man would therefore not be able to have authority over his own life, consequently not being able to make decisions about the value of his own human life. This is an unnerving thought because this means that science would have the authority over how you were created. But I argue that science should not have this authority and power by which the ethics of human cloning are decided. According to the bible, God is the only one who rightfully exercises sovereign control over human life. So therefore to attempt to control such things is to place yourself in God’s position. Clearly, man is not meant to do this.
To conclude “Human Cloning” is not regulated or banned in any country in the world. The lack of regulation that is in today’s world could potentially result in a world disaster due to so much cloning of humans in the future. Whether you agree with “Human Cloning” or whether you think that is ethically and morally wrong, you must strongly consider that there are consequences involved in the cloning of humans. I personally feel that the cloning of humans should be banned and research into cloning humans should be halted or stopped.
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