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turin14 ( 05/15/2003, 10:06:34 )I did a pare and i am just going to cut and paste it hear. Human Cloning Cloning came into the spotlight and started in full force when Dolly the sheep was born during the summer of 1996. Before Dolly, there had been some mixing of genes and the transferring of genes from one embryo to another. In the early years of the 20th century, Hans Spemann, winner of a Nobel Prize, was experimenting with salamander embryos. Hans determined that he could split the embryo in two with a piece of baby’s hair. Around half of the time Hans could split the embryo in two parts and make twins; however the other half of the time he would create deformed salamanders. Hans thought that he had actually cloned something. In the 1950s, Thomas J. King started taking the nucleus out of a frog’s egg. King would then transfer a nucleus from one frog embryo into another. This was a true clone. The next big jolt in the history of cloning came, when Steen Willadsen started mixing genes and transferring genes from different animal groups into the same embryo. Willadsen created sheep-cow mixtures. Willadsen said that he even ate one at a party, but it did not taste very well. Willadsen’s work led to the cloning of animals and possibly human life. In the summer of 1996, Dolly the cloned sheep was born, which led to births of other cloned animals. Last year at Texas A&M University a cat, which they named Copy was cloned. The Universities of Texas and Bath have created animals with no heads, including such animals as tadpoles and mice. They were successful in this because they found the gene that produces the head and turned it to the off position. Since these animals mice had no head, they could not breathe and the ones which were born died immediately (Double Trouble, pg. 4,5). Another breakthrough in the history of cloning is the ability to clone one group with the embryo of another group. This might happen by acquiring a cow’s embryo and putting a sheep’s nucleus in it to create a sheep. In theory, it would be possible to use an animal’s embryo and put a human’s nucleus in it and make a human. This possibility has not gone unnoticed. In theory, it would be feasible to make humans from animal eggs, but I do not know how well that would fly. The current process is to have young women submit to hormone injections. These injections cause women to develop several eggs a month. But cloning humans will start out like cloning Dolly the sheep, by trial and error. Did you know that there were 277 attempts to clone a sheep before they cloned Dolly? That means 277 sheep bit the dust and the rate of humans should be about the same if cloning continues. All of this in the name of science (Reasons to oppose Human Cloning, par. 3). In December 2002, a company called Clonaid claimed that they had cloned a baby girl named Eve. The international community can not confirm this first human cloning, because, Clonaid has offered no proof. It is possible that Clonaid is deceiving the world with their lies (Thorny ethical, par. 3). On a sad note, Dolly the sheep passed away Friday, February 14, 2003. Dolly had lung cancer and was put to death. She was named after Dolly Parton, the singer and had given birth on two occasions. Dolly’s life span was shorter than the life span of the average sheep (So long, par.1, 8). The President of the United States of America, George Bush, would like to ban human cloning. The House of Representatives has already voted in favor of banning human cloning; however this bill will face stiff opposition in the Senate and may not pass. President Bush announced his intentions to ban cloning in his State of the Union Address. The majority of the international community also favors outlawing human cloning (Double Trouble, par. 1-3). However, cloning may revolutionize the fields of science and medicine, but would challenge our moral and ethical values? Society is split on this issue. The ratio of people who support cloning to those who do not is 2:1. It is possible that other advantages may come out of cloning, but that is not likely to happen. Cloning goes against many people’s morals, especially the religious community. The majority of all religions support a ban on human cloning. This is interesting, since most religions have very little common ground. Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike would all like to see human cloning outlawed from the face of this planet. But religious people are not the only group to oppose human cloning. There is support in Washington to ban cloning, but is it enough? Do the consequences of cloning outweigh the possible advantages? Well, each person needs to find that out for himself or herself (Thorny ethical, pg. 2). Human cloning may offer society a clone army. That might sound absurd. A clone army would be an interesting development. Clones would replace the human soldiers on the battlefield. Clones may revolutionize warfare, as we know it. Battlefield commanders could have an endless supply of soldiers at their command. War may result in more conflict. Clone armies would fight on all corners of the globe. Clone armies might replace a mother’s grief on a battlefield for her fallen sons. Think about that. These soldiers would not be humans, only copies of humans made at the hands of a scientist. Should a clone army be given the respect and honor of an army today? If a clone died would it be a big deal? You could just create another one like it. No mother would cry over it, since it was not her Johnny, or Billy, just a clone. But if one clone army destroyed another clone army and attacked the humans, then that would be bad news (Please Clone Me, par. 11). Hollywood has picked up on this idea. In the movie Attack of the Clones (Stars Wars 2), the Republic has used a clone army to help the Jedi knights and these clones have more battles left to fight before the fighting is over. A clone army may not be that far fetched after all. If you could clone an army, then it is quite possible to create a master race and dominate the world or just create a superior race. If you could clone people, then you should be able to clone a specific body part. You would then take the best body parts and assemble a superior human. These humans would be able to push themselves farther and harder then ordinary humans, because they have the best bodies that society could offer. A superior human race might decide to go on a campaign of world domination. This same master race might decide to make slaves or servants out of the non master race race, simply because they are weaker and inferior. The inferior people would not enjoy being slaves, while the master race just sat down all day and worked on nothing at all, considerably lazy. Cloning would also make the possibilities of having a double seem more realistic. Cloning would allow people to have an identical copy made of them. This copy would look identical, but may not necessarily act they way you do. We could have a copy of a world leader go out and campaign, while the real one stays home and relaxes, or goes out campaigning somewhere else in the world. So, if there was an assassin who wanted to kill a specific world leader, he would not know if he killed the right one. But would you really want another one of you walking around? Some of us, get so disgusted with only one of you. Two would mean double the trouble. A copy of a celebrity might be made, then there would be two of them, imagine that. There might be to Jennifer Lopezes’ running around; what would the world come to? If you could make a double, how would other people know who was the real one (Please Clone Me, par. 11)? In theory, if you were able to clone a human or a human body part, could you not clone a certain object? In principle, should you not be able to clone food? If cloners would be able to clone food, then it might be enough to wipe out the threat of world hunger. Let’s say that the cloners could clone fossil fuel. If they could then that would decrease our need for foreign oil to nothing because we could just make a copy of it. But science and its technologies are not up to this point yet, and only God knows what the future will hold. Human cloning could allow a person to live forever. If a person was sick, then they could acquire a healthy body part, or make a copy of a newer healthy body and transport their brain and genes into that body, so they could live forever and not die unless by war or some other harm done to our bodies. There are lots of people who would love never to die. Think about that if you did not taste death for a long, long time. Imagine all the places you would be able to see. However, death is a consequence of sin. Personally, I think living forever would be boring, because you just keep on living and never seeing the grim reaper (Please Clone Me, par. 20). Also, parents could choose their babies. The cloners could clone every single type of baby and the parents merely just come and pick it out at the store. That store might even be called Babies R Us. Single parents, male or female, could come by and pick a child out. If people could come and pick out their future child, then that would down play the role of women in giving birth. Women would no longer have to wait and give birth to have a child. They could just go around the block and order one. Women would not have to wait nine months or experience the pains of labor in giving birth to a child. There are families that can not have children and have already tried adopting, but can not get hold of a child. I know a family like this. Cloning would offer them a child of any age to pick and enjoy (Human Cloning, Kilner par. 7). Being able to buy a baby would destroy families and family values. A bought child may not be shown any love and might end up being a slave for life to his so called parents. This would also destroy family values. Life would not be considered sacred if mankind could create life. Mankind could create life into what mankind sees as good. This might destroy any notion of God’s responsibility for creating life for future generations. If life was not considered sacred and scientists could conduct experiments on humans, our world would be a drastically different place. This place might not be better. The world would create a race that the cloners and society could label the perfect generation or a master race. A generation with no moral or ethical standards has a good chance of being like the people in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Reasons to, par. 4). Cloning would have its biggest impact in the field of medicine. Cloning may even find cures for a disease like cancer that currently has no cure. Human cloning may allow the possibilities of cloning organs and erasing the waiting list for organ donations. If you are not aware, America and several other countries have a huge waiting list for people needing donations. There is a wait for organ donations, because there are not a lot of organ donors. Cloning would change this by creating an endless supply of organs, so any living person that needed an organ could acquire one (Please Clone Me, par. 20). Sure having no organ waiting list would be a good deed done and the possibilities of finding cures for incurable diseases would be a good thing, but does the end result outweigh our moral values and convictions? In order to have an endless supply of human organs, scientists would have to clone a person and then kill the clone for its parts. Technology is not at the point where the cloners could place a brain on a table and make an identical copy of the brain; however that day is coming. There is talk in the cloning community about cloning a person without a head. Since this person had no head, it could not be able to breathe and would die fairly quickly. The cloning community’s reasoning is that since this person had no head and would not be able to survive, it is and never was a human. This reason sounds like the reasoning used in abortion to the affect that it is not a human only a ball of nerves. The author mentioned earlier in this paper that cloning might cure some diseases. Cloning would also provide more organs for experimenting. The more experiments that are going on, the greater the possibility of finding a cure. As an example, you had cancer of the brain, you could copy your genes on to a healthy brain and put it back in your body. Cloning would cure some diseases like Parkinson’s disease. The people who had those diseases would probably enjoy a cure, so they would not have to spend the rest of their days with this or some other disease known to the human race (Human Cloning, Dobson par. 5). Dying patients and their doctors might support cloning. The dying would get the chance to prolong their days upon the face of this earth. The doctors would get the chance to help people and make money. These are some possible benefits of the legalization of human cloning. As a nation, America needs to ask herself if the end justifies the means. Most people that support human cloning do not have legitimate reasons. These people just fancy having a clone. Science is messing in an area that should not be messed with. Science is messing with humans. Science is creating deformed humans. There is a difference in creating animals with no heads and humans with no heads. In the world of scientists, there was an understanding that human cloning was not to be attempted. This was an unspoken moral standard in the scientific community. That unspoken moral has been broken; perhaps it should have been spoken standard in the first place. There will always be time to ponder this fact. Human cloning has at least been attempted. A human girl may have been cloned then born. In cloning, there is no middle ground. You either support human cloning or you do not. Well, some people might say that they would only support cloning for medical reasons, or genetic cloning instead of therapeutic cloning. Those people still support human cloning. For the most part, there is no middle ground in the legalization of human cloning. There is not even a lack of people who want to be cloned (Christian History Corner, par. 5). Some doctors and cloners have announced their plans to open up shop and start cloning people. These doctors and cloners are willing to start cloning people with or without federal grant money. There are people who would pay a lot of money to be cloned and that fact has not gone unnoticed by these doctors and cloners. Greed is what is driving these doctors and cloners to clone people. They want their money; so they can go retire somewhere nice and not have to worry about the causes and effects of human cloning. Human cloning gives people the opportunity to create and destroy life all with the push of a button. Christians believe that life is created and sanctified by God alone and is created in God’s image, not a copy of something made in the image of God. Christians should not turn a deaf ear to human cloning. Cloning goes against some of the standards in the Bible. If a parent is able to choose their child, then the gift of a child ceases to be from God. This child is not a surprise to the parents after nine long months of waiting. A child picked out by the parents would be no surprise to them. The parents would be able to pick their future child down to its eye color. That is playing God. This also affects the family structure. Women would no longer have to suffer the pains of childbirth. The pain of childbirth was a result of a curse from God. Death might be adverted with the aid of human cloning. Only two mortals have not tasted death, both of them were taken up into heaven. The world would be so over populated if no one died. God did not give humans the gift of eternal life on earth. God has given us the gift of eternal life with Him in heaven. Jesus died. The Savior of the human race died, but Jesus was raised from the dead. Humans do not live as long as they used to in Bible times. This is due to sin. Christians regard all life and death is in God’s hands. If human cloning were to happen, it is possible that life and death would be no longer in God’s hands, because people would have the opportunity to live forever and never taste death. Human cloning would destroy two values that God places on individuals: the fact that all humans are priceless and the reality of a human’s uniqueness in the eyes of God. Human cloning is probably the tip of an iceberg. Human experiments and clone slavery are coming up fast, if cloning is not banned. Humans should not be experimented on. Humans are at the top of the food chain. Humans are above animals. The animals do not no have more rights than mankind. Experiments should be done on animals. If those experiments are proven successfully, then and only then should doctors be allowed to experiment on any member of the human race? During World II, the Nazi prison doctors did human experiments on prisoners of war in their prison camps. Their experiments were horrible atrocities. These doctors would conduct experiments on pregnant ladies and even newborn babies. If human life is not respected worse things than human experiments may occur. Human experiments can be bad, but what if life itself was not respected or even held in high regard. It is conceivable that murder could follow murder in the world. If there is no regard to human life, then why can we not kill our next door neighbor? There is no reason why we should not be able to do that. Clone armies would be destroying clone armies. So, why should humans not be allowed to destroy humans? There is no reason why humans should not be allowed to kill each other, if human life is regarded or respected. I think that human cloning is morally and ethically wrong. I believe that the human cloning is contrary to the Bible. Sure, there might be some advantages of human cloning; however in my opinion the end result does not justify the means (Human Cloning, Kilner par. 16). It is possible that human cloning may hold the key to some medical discoveries and some cure for diseases. I am against the idea of making a clone and then killing the clone for its organs and other parts (Reasons to, par. 1). I do not like the idea of clone armies roaming the planet. Clone armies would result in more wars. Countries would not have to worry about the effects of war, because clones not humans would be fighting in the front lines. Making babies and selling them to the highest bidder goes against the Bible and is morally wrong. Selling babies at a store is no different then selling slaves at the auction block many moons before. I know that I would not want another one of me walking around. What if there were two Hitler’s instead of one? Would World War II still be going on today in another country? Only the rich and famous person would benefit from having a copy made of them. A copy of the rich and famous would only earn them more money. Be honest with yourself, there are some people that we can not stand. How would you like to deal with two of that person instead of only one? I know for a fact that I would not like to deal with that problem. The idea of a master race does not sound too good to me either. If there is a master race then there is a weaker race. It would not be any fun to be apart of that weaker race. I am willing to bet that the weaker race would have to serve the master race. If the job of a slave appeals to you, then I suggest you support human cloning and become a member of the weaker race. Also the idea of living forever does not appeal to me. The book Tuck Everlasting is about a family that lives forever. I just would not want to live forever and slowly see our planet go down the drain. Just the whole idea of living forever, on this side of Paradise, does not appeal to me at all. I would not support cloning. Human cloning goes against the Bible and moral standards. Human cloning degrades life, while the Bible and God cherish life.
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