Cloning
...0 years later (Dixon). Some may find it no different than any natural identical twin birth. The emotional stress that will be put on this child when it gets older is unbelievable. She will know that her mother is her twin sister and her grandmother is really her mother. When the mother looks at this new child she will see herself growing up all over again. The husband could see his wife’s clone grow into the replica of the 18 year old her fell in love with 35 years ago. Eve, will no doubt have troubles growing up, knowing that she is a clone. Some scientists are also worried that people will begin to clone their children that have died. A clone could also be made of a living twin and be frozen. When and if the twin dies, the clone can be thawed out and the family won’t have to go through the grieving process. How will this child feel knowing that they aren’t the original but a carbon copy from the lab. There will be no determination of who can be cloned. Some may create children to fill predetermined roles such as a gifted athlete or scholar. Although the outside appearance will be identical the personality won’t be. “Michael Jordan’s clone, lacking the same drive and training, might not be a basketball star”(Shaeffer). The environment in which these clones grow up in can greatly differ the outcomes. Most U.N. members favor a prohibition of cloning animals. Many of these countries are pressing for a partial ban that would allow the continued use of the cloned embryos for stem cell and other research. Scientists say that the use of cloned embryos in stem cell research can help find cures for diseases like Parkinson’s and leukemia. Michael Manganiello is the president of the Coalition for that Advancement of Medical Research. He states that “Reproductive cloning should be banned but we strongly support the ability of scientists to investigate the potential of therapies that can be derived from stem cells for therapeutic cloning”(Lynch). A scientist from Michigan State University disagrees with some of what Manganiello says. Jose Cibelli helped South Korea in making their clones. He believes that America should technologically be ahead of the rest of the world. Due to Bush’s ban on conducting research on human embryos that uses federal funding, Cibelli claims that “All we need is the funding and we could get this done” (Weiss). There are ways to get around the U.S. laws. If cloning is forbidden in one place, it will be made obtainable somewhere else. The replication of human beings through technological means has been a subject of science fiction novels. Today, science has caught up with science fiction. Some scientists see cloning as an opportunity to show that their country is better than others. They are forgetting that they are creating a life, no The first mammal to be cloned from DNA was Dolly. She was a sheep that was born on July 5th, 1996. Dolly was put to sleep through lethal injection on February 5th, 2003. While alive Dolly suffered from arthritis and lung cancer. When Dolly was born she seemed like any other typical sheep. No scientist had an logical explanation of why she got lung cancer or arthritis at such a young age. She gave natural birth to six lambs. She lived only six years while the average life for a Dorset sheep is eleven to twelve years (“Cloning Fact Sheet”). Reproductive cloning is the technology use to create an animal that has the same nuclear DNA make-up of a currently or previously existing animal. Reproductive cloning should be banned world wide. In December of 2003 the U.S. government and its many allies want to start drafting an agreement barring the practice of animal cloning. Some supporters in the ban are Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica and Italy. One of the major countries that permit this immoral practice to be done is Korea. Many types of animals have be cloned such as goats, cows, mice, pigs and cats. Cloned animals have a higher rate of infection and tumor growth. Studies taken in Japan show that mice that have been cloned live in poor health and die early on. Cloned calves also die young and many of them were unusually large. 30% of cloned animals are affected with large offspring syndrome. Many cloned animals die mysteriously. Australia’s first cloned sheep appeared healthy on the day she past away and the autopsy couldn’t determine the because of death (“Cloning Fact Sheet”). The animals may seem healthy at a young age but won’t live very long. The odds of a cloned animal living aren’t very high. There is no reason to clone something and have its life taken away because scientists haven’t found a way to perfect the process of cloning. Cloning is extremely expensive and greatly inefficient. More than 90% of cloning efforts fail to produce possible offspring. A bioethics professor at the University of Alabama stated, “What we can predict for the future is that the money issues will be more important than the emotional one”(Shaeffer). 841 male and female embryos were constructed successfully and only 17 of them were inserted into to mares. Of those 17 just one become a cloned horse. This process was successful but the amount of money spent on trying to clone just one horse was tremendous. There are so many other things in this world that we can spend the governments money on. There are people that don’t eat for weeks, yet scientists feel we should create more mouths to feed. Clonaid, a cloning company in South Korea, claims that a woman has given birth to the first cloned human. The child’s name is Eve. The mother gave birth to her own identical twin 30 yea...