Is cloning a living organism, such as a human or animal wrong?
It is worth mentioning that there are several kinds of cloning that already exist in nature, and some of them are already widely used by humans. Take fruit trees. If one is particularly productive, farmers might take a cutting from it and grow a whole new tree… or a whole orchard. They are producing a genetically identical adult from a part of an existing adult. Cloning. And they’ve been doing this for thousands of years. If we stopped doing it and eliminated all the crops produced in this way, I would be surprised if there was really much left. Another example is called parthenogenesis. Some female animals can produce offspring without a sperm. They just become pregnant or lay one of their own modified eggs. Since there is no genetic material involved other than their own, the offspring is again effectively a clone of the mother. To suggest, then, that cloning itself is immoral would be like saying feeding people is immoral or that a bolt of lightning is immoral. It happens naturall
