Human Cloning - Medical Breakthrough or Mad Science?
Human Cloning - Medical Breakthrough or have Scientists lost their Minds?
A woman, at the rightful age of 24, has decided to have a hysterectomy. She lives alone by herself, has no kids or a boyfriend. One year after she has the surgery, which strips her of the ability to have children, she meets the perfect man for her and they get married. Now since she had the surgery she is unable to have children with her husband. Human cloning can give that ability back to her! Along with relieving infertility, human cloning will hold the potential for immortality, and be able to cure many “incurable” diseases. That’s why Human Cloning and its research and technologies are necessary and should be continued.
Cloning could make it possible for many more infertile couples to have children than ever before by increasing efficiency through nuclear transfer (Cohen 6), sperm from the father could be transferred into the mother’s egg, thus creating a child. This is the same procedure used to create “Dolly” the first cloned animal, a ewe, in recorded history back in 1997. Artificial insemination, embryo manipulation, and more were once strongly opposed by the world but we have grown accustomed to them and have accepted them as forms of reproduction. “Cloning is but one of many high-tech methods of reproduction” (Nussbaum 271). Right now infertility treatments are about 10 percent
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effective(272) and the couples go through an intense amount of physical and emotional pain and suffering just for a slim chance that hopefully they will be able to produce a child. And in most cases they run out of time and money with little or no success. Infertile men are made to feel like they are not “holding up their part of the deal," while women are made to feel as if they are useless. Banning human cloning is just like banning life. It would be depriving those couples who wish to raise a child of their own genetic traits. This kid could be the next great President of our country or he could develop the cure for cancer and if we banned human cloning we would never know what could have happened.
As far as curing cancer, human cloning technologies could hold the key to that question as well as developing a cure for many other “incurable...