Cloning - All Constraints upon Cloning Should Be Lifed
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Essay title: Cloning - All Constraints upon Cloning Should Be Lifed
Cloning
ALL CONSTRAINTS UPON CLONING SHOULD BE LIFED
Cloning has been a very controversial topic since it affects moral
values of human beings and other living things alike. In February
1997 scientists in Scotland announced the birth of the first cloned
sheep named Dolly, this heralded the future of cloning possibilities
and scientists began extensive experiments on cloning and have
since then cloned both plants and animals successfully. The next
step was to clone actual human beings but before experiments
could have been carried out pressure started build on the
scientists because people started to doubt if cloning was ethical
and morally correct. Governments began to introduce bans and
constraints on cloning, as they felt cloning was not correct and
because they represented the people of its country, it had to act
on it. Cloning has its cons but its pros seem to overcome them
greatly.
If cloning were allowed to be experimented scientists would come
up of a way to clone body organs which are an exact replica of an
individual body organ. This would prove very to be very beneficial
to a person who may have lost a body organ such as a kidney,
scientists could clone that particular organ for the individual,
which, in the long run, would work better than a transplant organ.
Cloning will certainly expand the scope of medicine greatly, thus
enhance the possibilities of conquering diseases such as the
Parkinson's disease, cancer and other diseases that were earlier
considered incurable
Cloning could be used to increase the population of endangered
species of animals and thus save them from total extinction. This
would help maintain a natural balance on the earth and have a
continuos natural life cycle.
Cloning could certainly benefit couples who are infertile and want
to have a child of their own, thus they could use cloning to
produce a baby with their similar characteristics. In fact they may
be able to even choose the characteristics of their child. Equally
important women who are single could have child, using cloning