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Cloning to be or not to be
by Seth Kelso |
Kadrey states “… she announced to the world that only is having cloning possible, but that she and her team had already done it” (253). The 2-year-old girl named Katy Hythner is doing fine and is acting like a regular two year old girl does. Cloning humans if regulated will help humans proceed in our existence. A married couple doesn’t have to worry about having a boy or a girl that will not live long due to birth defects. With this state-of-the-art advancement, we can now proceed with our dominance in today’s universe. Koteas states “This is one little girl deeply loved by her ordinary mother and father. Trust me there is nothing to worry about” (Kadrey 264). We need to take this step and make it positive; science has advanced us this far so why hide from it now.
Although cloning may be unethical and immoral, it could be the cutting-edge to extend human existence. Parenting clones will soon become as normal as parenting an adopted child. We as humans need to stand behind the right to clone humans for the purpose to advance our technologies of the human body, and to master our purpose of life. The extensive
planning to reproduce the lives of loved ones has shown to be very possible as it was achieved with Katy. We would be selfish and ignorant to turn our backs and not allow this wonderful advancement in science to develop. Cloning has been proven possible in several species, even humans. We need to understand that the only way our species will continue to grow and live on is to develop new changes and expand our possibilities of the human capabilities.
Works Cited
Bailey, Ronald. “The Twin Paradox: What Exactly is Wrong.” The Human Cloning Debate. McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 181-188.
Callahan, Daniel and Mary Mahowald. “Ethics of Creation: To Clone or not to Clone.”
Time/CNN Poll, online; 11/9/98.
www.pathfinder.com/TIME/cloning/ethics1.html
Fielding, Ellen. “Fear of Cloning Pro-Life Perspective.” The Human Cloning Debate. McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 215-226.
Hass, John. “Catholic Perspectives Cloning Humans.” The Human Cloning Debate. McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 205-214.
Hull T. Richard. “No Fear: How a Humanist Faces Science’s New Creation.” Free Inquiry, 17.3 (Summer 1997): 18-20.
Kadrey, Richard. “Carbon Copy.” The Human Cloning Debate. McGee, Glenn.
Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 253-264. [a fictional chapter]
Lewontin, Richard. “The Confusion over Cloning.” The Human Cloning Debate.
McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 125-140.
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Debate. McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 141-148.
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McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 67-82.
Roy, Ina. “Philosophical Perspective.” The Human Cloning Debate. McGee, Glenn. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998. 41-66. |
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