Why is human cloning good?
Cloning is evil! I hope there is a secret group somewhere out there killing these fricking scientists who practice this abomination. You dont need to clone a actual human in order to get organs for people that need transplants. People like me who r against this are not afraid of the unknown, we are afraid that the ones in charge of this petri dish madness have bad intentions. With no supervision or means of checks and balances, this horror will be used for the worst things a human mind can think of. Just a note, I dont believe in any God so the agruement that Im basing my thoughts on religion is not remotely true.
If what you mean by cloning is replicating certain parts of the human body, then I think cloning is okay. It can help people live healthier and longer lives. However, if it means cloning the whole person, I don’t think that’s a good idea. We can clone the body, but not the mind and spirit. We shouldn’t kill our clone so we can get the body parts that we need. Watch The Island (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannson).
Man, you have the difficult side to argue! I’m with the people who say it would be good for growing just organs or tissues for transplants. Not only do people sometimes die waiting for organs, but if the organ donor is not their identical twin, they have to take immunosuppressant drugs for life and risk of the organ being rejected anyway. Other than that I think it’s a terrible idea, but let me see what I can dream up for you… Maybe everybody should have an identical twin. If for some reason we couldn’t manage to grow just a liver but could clone a whole person, it would be good if people who were planning to have 2 kids anyway made the 2nd one be a clone of the first, so that they could donate “spare parts” to each other if need be. Eg. a kidney, a little bone marrow… part of a liver… that sort of thing. If the cells for the clone were removed early in fetal development (say, at about the time you might do amniocentisis) maybe that would get around the telomerase issue. And hmm.
Word Count: 543 Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely to spark, these public hearings should be a good thing. The result of the hearings, however, could likely be a very bad thing. The calls for regulation and legislation that are certain to result from these hearings would be grossly counter-productive. Like most breakthrough medical technologies, cloning is inherently risky. The technology is currently in its infancy; the success rate is very low; the frequency of genetic abnormalities in clones is alarmingly high, and clone life spans tend to be significantly shorter than their genetic forebears. But the risks associated with cloning will decline as procedures are refined and the science better understood. While the current level of risk certainly should prohibit any responsible researcher from engaging in immediate human experimentation, the proper response to the risk of a developing medical techno
