Human Cloning is beneficial
Human Cloning is beneficialHuman cloning is becoming one of the most controversial topics of our time. With recent technological breakthroughs, whole new fields are opening with remarkable possibilities. With this huge step in science, the world realized that cloning of human beings was no longer a plot of a science fiction movie, but rather a realistic look into the future of science and medicine. Have you ever imagined what life would be if we could eliminate problems such as AIDS, cancer and human organs shortage? This is one of the questions that arise when the subject of cloning is brought up. Cloning is the next generation of medicine and can be beneficial to humanity because of the potential to solve the problems with fertility, to prevent hereditary diseases, to eliminate the problem with human organs limitation and it would help paralyzed people.
Cloning humans became more than a possibility after Ian Wilmut�s announcement in February 1997, that a healthy sheep named Dolly had been cloned from an adult cell (Reilly 289). Less than a year after Wilmut�s discovery, the physicist Richard Seed said in a radio interview that he is planning to set up a private clinic for cloning human
beings (Stock 61). The immediate response of the media and even of the president of the United States was hysterical and even more explosive than Wilmut�s announcement about Dolly�s arrival (Reilly 293). Perhaps some people ask themselves, why Dr. Seed, a physicist with no laboratory facilities, garnered so much attention? In fact, it does not matter what Dr. Seed can or cannot do, human cloning can be pursued in private clinics, no matter what government and scientists say (Stock 61).
One of the strongest reasons why cloning should no be banned is the potential to solve the problems with fertility. The desire to have a biological child is deeply ingrained impulse. No one has the right to tell people that they should not be able to have their own child. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? It is desire to most of the couples to have children and when is impossible, some are willing to do anything to have one.
In the book �Engineering The Human Germline�, Gregory Stock and John Campbell state their view by giving an example who and why might use the procedure of cloning (63-64). They are presenting a fantasy story what takes place fifty years in the future. It is the story of a wealthy forty years old woman named Jennifer who is single, has a child from another marriage, and she wants to have one more child (Stock 63). However, she is not able to have children anymore. Notwithstanding there is a real possibility for Jennifer to have another child, and the alternative options are two. She could get a sperm donor and fertilize her eggs or she can clone one of her own cells (Stock 64). By using a sperm donor, she...
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