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Common Reasons People Support
Cloning
· Support of scientific research
· Recovery of lost loved ones
· Infertility: cloning a fertile copy of themselves
· Eugenics*:
making a superhuman race
· Creation of spare body parts**
· Reproduction of their own qualities
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Eugenics: There are many people who believe the
human race would be better off if specific traits
could be chosen and others deleted. For example,
scientists could eliminate all the disease-causing
genes, guaranteeing a healthy baby. They could also
give that baby enhanced vision and hearing, extreme
intelligence, or a supermodel’s body. This has many
ethicists and theologians worried, however, for
they feel that eugenics is tampering with God’s
plan.
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Spare body parts: Many people like this idea because
injured people would no longer need cumbersome prosthetic
equipment, but could instead have a new flesh-and-blood
hand or leg in its place! And this idea isn’t just
limited to limbs--it includes most every organ:
the heart, bone marrow, lungs, blood, kidneys, colon,
and so on.
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