Cloning Research
... Ethical issues clobber the topic of cloning, whether it being ‘playing god’, or a break through for infertile parents and much needed organ donors. Groups and religious leaders have a strong and indefinite ‘no’ on the subject of cloning, that it is not our job to be creating life and that we should leave it to a higher power. But, scientists are finding much more uses with the possibility of cloning and how it could save lives and cure disease. ... Different groups and organizations define cloning differently. To use a specific definition, the American Medical Association (AMA) defined cloning as “the production of genetically identical organisms via somatic cell nuclear transfer. ... In other words, cloning is the method of produce a baby that has the same genes as one parent. ... The pope condemned all experiments in the cloning of human embryos even with a view to obtaining new organs for transplant. ... The British Parliament has voted to allow the cloning of human embryos, despite a united appeal by the country’s religious leaders urging delay. This vote allows Therapeutic cloning for embryos up to 14 days old. This technique involves creating genetically identical embryos from which stem cells will be taken and used for research into diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, and cancer. ... (Pulford) Supporters on the issue agued that therapeutic cloning has nothing to do with reproductive cloning. Because reproductive cloning is the creation of a cloned human being. Which is in a different league on the topic of cloning. Reproductive cloning deals with the reproducing or copying ones genes to make another person of animal, where as therapeutic cloning alters genes. ... The process of cloning is very complex and technical, and in the end, the worth of the cure for a life threatening disease will be priceless. ... The researchers at PPL also believe that more research is to be done on the procedure. ... It is one thing to be creating clones of human beings, but it is another to be trying to correct mistakes of the past by introducing certain species to the cloning process. ... Scientists need relatively large quantities of live tissue to make cloning succeed, and even then they have significant technological and ethical hurdles to overcome. (Redeker) Even with the thought of doing good by bringing back endangered species, animal rights activists criticize the low success rate of cloning as cruel.