What would you think if you were to able to talk to an exact clone of yourself? Most people think that cloning is part of science fiction but can be done and in June of 1997, scientists in Scotland were successfully able to clone a sheep. This major step in cloning raised question in the scientific world. Many people ask is cloning ethical to humanity? To some people, being able to clone is like playing God. To me, is beneficiary to humanity if used in a manner to help, not harm. Statistics from the National Funeral Directors Association show that 8.
8 people die in death per every on one thousand in the U. S. population, with the population at over two hundred billion to date. If cloning were introduced in to society, I feel that the death rate would slowly decrease.
If cloning were used for medical purposes, scientist would be able to create healthy lungs for cancer patients, or new hearts for heart patients, which would drastically reduce waiting lists for people who need vital organ transplants to live. Cloning could also be used to help us understand thing about the human body that cannot be solve by modern scientists. Cloning can enable scientists to understand why nervous cells, unlike the others in the human body, dont multiply. This is very important if nerve cells could be multiplied and would eventually be possible to enable paralyzed people who have suffered a fractured spinal cord to walk again. Cloning individual human cells could lead to the vaccines and cures for cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis and many other diseases with no cure.
Cloning single cells could be used to produce skin, bones, cartilage for victims of major accidents. It may even be used to repair retinas of the eyes. Cloning also makes it possible to preserve certain qualities in selected fruits and plants. For example, creating a tomato or any kind of fruit or vegetable that was genetically enhanced to be bigger, or have more vitamins and nutrients in it, then cloning it for mass production. That would lead to more demand for a healthier consumer.
This production of cloned vegetables is already being used today but in the future, every farmed plant may be genetically grown. According to surveys done on the ethics of cloning, six percent favor the use of cloning and more than eighty percent are against it. But on the other hand when ask if the practice and techniques of cloning were to be further researched, seventy one percent said yes. I asked a former teacher of mine what he felt about cloning and he quoted: I feel that cloning has more advantages to society than disadvantages.
I mean, yeah, if you look at it at a certain way, it may seem immoral but I am all for the research and development of cloning. Ive interviewed a lot of my friends and they are more afraid of cloning being used in way of mass destruction like for example, mass producing infantry soldiers for war. I think that as people mature, they start to see the benefits of cloning more than the drawbacks. In conclusion, I feel that cloning should be further researched and that people should take in consideration the use of cloning as a benefit.
Cloning can help so many ill and unfortunate victims of disease and accidents. It could drastically change the number of death and suffering not just in the United States but in the world. It could even make your everyday meal more tasteful and healthy. Words / Pages : 619 / 24 .
