Ethics of Human Cloning
... Of these stories, cloning, or the replication of life, has been particularly prevalent as researchers in Scotland cloned a sheep and two scientific teams in the United States reported that they had isolated human stem cells. These reports illustrate important issues in the ongoing discussion of the ethics of cloning and ultimately demonstrate why society must continue to vehemently oppose human cloning. According to the esteemed British Medical Journal, there are two types of human cloning. Therapeutic cloning involves removing the mother’s genetic information from an egg and replacing it with the DNA from a body cell from another adult. ... Conversely, reproductive cloning entails the removal of the genetic material from an egg and replacing it with the nucleus from another adults cell.