Free Essays on Human Cloning

Perfection in humans is unheard of. We cannot even agree on what ‘normal’ is, much less what is perfect. All opinions are based on what each person prefers, or what works best for them. Human life should not be decided this way. It could lead to mass races, and people working toward creating the â€Å"perfect human.† Such people would be used as human machines, neglected as people, looked to only for what they can do, and not who they are. Hard work wouldn’t be as appreciated in the world. â€Å"workers† for specific causes will be created. Naturally born people will want to use these â€Å"created people† for their own use. Biologically cloned humans would be shunned from society as outsiders. People think in â€Å"fairness† terms naturally. Would it be fair to naturally made people to compete in a world with biologically enhanced clones? Let’s look at the motives behind cloning. The biggest anticipated reason for cloning would be to â€Å"replace† a lost child or loved one, or â€Å"create† a child from homosexual or infertile couples. Other reasons include â€Å"growing† organs for replacements, creating perfect humans, creating humans for specific causes, cloning to further medical research, to find a way to immortality, or to create mass races, for whatever cause. While many ethical concerns worry about medical risk, and the use of embryos, many critics have focused on the danger to people's individuality and uniqueness. The most troubling concern is that clones will be exact carbon copies with no uniqueness or identity because a clone would be psychologically and physically identical to his or her DNA donor. A U.S. News and World Report cover features a drawing of an ink stamp pressing out thousands of crying babies. This image portrays cloning as a frightening mass production of sameness while cloning treats clones as commodities with no identity or soul. The fear of losing identity reflects people's belief i... Free Essays on Human Cloning Free Essays on Human Cloning Perfection in humans is unheard of. We cannot even agree on what ‘normal’ is, much less what is perfect. All opinions are based on what each person prefers, or what works best for them. Human life should not be decided this way. It could lead to mass races, and people working toward creating the â€Å"perfect human.† Such people would be used as human machines, neglected as people, looked to only for what they can do, and not who they are. Hard work wouldn’t be as appreciated in the world. â€Å"workers† for specific causes will be created. Naturally born people will want to use these â€Å"created people† for their own use. Biologically cloned humans would be shunned from society as outsiders. People think in â€Å"fairness† terms naturally. Would it be fair to naturally made people to compete in a world with biologically enhanced clones? Let’s look at the motives behind cloning. The biggest anticipated reason for cloning would be to â€Å"replace† a lost child or loved one, or â€Å"create† a child from homosexual or infertile couples. Other reasons include â€Å"growing† organs for replacements, creating perfect humans, creating humans for specific causes, cloning to further medical research, to find a way to immortality, or to create mass races, for whatever cause. While many ethical concerns worry about medical risk, and the use of embryos, many critics have focused on the danger to people's individuality and uniqueness. The most troubling concern is that clones will be exact carbon copies with no uniqueness or identity because a clone would be psychologically and physically identical to his or her DNA donor. A U.S. News and World Report cover features a drawing of an ink stamp pressing out thousands of crying babies. This image portrays cloning as a frightening mass production of sameness while cloning treats clones as commodities with no identity or soul. The fear of losing identity reflects people's belief i... Free Essays on Human Cloning Human Cloning The first message Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, sent over wires between Baltimore and Washington was â€Å"What hath God wrought!† The marvel of human birth should bring about the same ideas of wonder in the parents of a newborn child. Currently the, so-called, â€Å"cult† of human perfectionism lies in â€Å"what marvels science has achieved!† The cloning of goats, pigs, sheep and other farm animals has led to the brink of the cloning of human beings. Maverick Italian cloning proponent Dr. Severnio Antinori, with the help of Panos Zavos, a Kentucky scientist and entrepreneur, addressing a panel of scientists meeting in Washington last week, announced that they are prepared to proceed with the creation of the world’s first cloned human beings. Antinori’s insane proposal was met with outcries of world condemnation of human cloning by the many well-known specialists present, who rejected the work as unethical and immoral. One critic of the concept of human cloning termed it â€Å"the height of arrogance.† The U.S. House of Representatives had passed the Human Cloning Prohibition Act by a vote of 265-162 on July 31. The vote came the day after a strong White House statement against human cloning. The statement said, â€Å"the administration is unequivocally opposed to the cloning of human beings either for reproduction or for research.† It also said that the â€Å"moral and ethical issues posed by human cloning are profound and cannot be ignored in the quest for scientific discovery.† The bill that was passed was well thought out. It â€Å"prohibits any production of or attempt to produce cloned human embryos by the transfer of nuclear material from one or more human somatic cells into an enucleated human egg. This involves removing the 23-chromosome nucleus from a woman’s egg and replacing it with the full 46-chromosome nucleus of a person’s regular somatic, or body, cell. The resulting embryo is a...