Cloning

Cloning is a very controversial topic since it relates to moral values of human beings. Scientists began extensive experiments on cloning and have since then cloned both plants and animals successfully. “Unlike the prospects of human cloning, the prospects of animal cloning are endless, and scientists are extremely excited” (The Benefits). 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 have to come up with a way to clone body organs that are an exact replica of an individual body organ. This would prove 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. “The possibility of producing not a complete body but just an organ to save the life of a human being who requires the transplant of that organ”(Advantages). 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 certainly benefit couples that are infertile and want to have a child of their own, thus they could use cloning to produce a baby with their similar characteristics. “Under the right conditions, that egg with a complete set of genes, with a complete genomic material, could develop into an embryo. It would divide into multiple cells and that embryo could be placed