Human Cloning is the Cure for Infertility
by JP Lovell
Infertility. Biblical narratives would have us know that it was
considered a curse brought upon a household through a hapless
woman. They use the utterly unforgiving word, "barren," which
evokes shame both to man and God.
For whatever reason, theological or otherwise, infertility can
bring some degree of shame or, at the very least, incompleteness
for both man and woman, since it afflicts both sexes.
Thus, like all physical afflictions, it is never wrong to look
for a cure.
Yet, current methods of assisted reproduction are highly
inefficient. Thus, we must look towards a new techique now being
researched albeit with opposition that generally barks up the
wrong tree.
This technique is called reproductive cloning or somatic nuclear
transfer, which was how Dolly was cloned. Cloning technology
offers infertile couples the promise of greatly
improving the odds of having a baby.
An infertile man can have sperm cloned and the undamaged sperm
used. Likewise, an infertile woman can have an egg cloned and the
fertile egg used for conception. In extreme cases a person can be
cloned so a sibling is conceived.
Regardless of ethical debates about human cloning (there are
various essays in this site that intelligently discuss this) it
must be a choice offered to infertile parents. Like a truly
democratic nation such as ours, this choice must be protected and
upheld.
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