Against Human Cloning
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Submitted by smartstand on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Against Human Cloning
"Offensive, Grotesque, Revolting, Repugnant, and Repulsive" (Mc Gee 78). These words are most commonly heard regarding the prospect of human cloning. Cloning of Mammals all started in February 24, 1997, scientist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland and the creation of a clone of a sheep called Dolly. Cloning is making a genetically identical copied of a single cell or organism. Cloning is the manipulation of a cell from an animals or humans in such a way that it grows into a copy of that animals with identical nucleic DNA. Animal Cloning today is still going on because they are not works of nature or nature's God but of man. Human Cloning should be ban because it violates human rights and an immorally way to have children.
A problem with cloning is that there will be a psychological impacts from cloning, both on the person who DNA is used to create the clone and the resulting offspring. Psychologists worry that the mental health of the original may suffer from seeing himself or herself cloned. Many original may fell that a clone would give them a second chance at life or an opportunity to change their fate. However, original could suffer also from being psychologically confused and distressing about them seeing themselves as a child because the original is growing old. If the original sees the clone as a chance to correct fate, then the pressure placed on the clone would harm both the original and the cloned. Mixing parental and twin role could be psychological harmful to the parents and the cloned. "For the clonant to have a his parent the foreknower and creator of everyone of his genetic predispositions might well make child adjustment exponentially more difficult" (Watson 14). Psychologist worried that cloning would also undermine the autonomy and individuality of the cloned child. "The worry is that having the identical genetic endowments as someone else who had already existed would have the child thinking he not living his own life"...
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