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Cloning Controversy
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Cloning has been the latest controversy in the headlines. Some people believe cloning will enable scientists to do more research to help cure diseases. Others believe that cloning is playing God. There is merit to both arguments.
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With the ability to clone, scientists can produce identical cells, tissue, or animals in mass numbers for research. The masses can also create more healthy livestock and food with the good or better qualities without disease.
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However, with cloning, humans will be able to control what their offspring will be like. This will put pressure on the cloned person to live up to who they were cloned after. Parents may also have the ability to choose the genes that they want in their child. This may mean the rich can choose the good genes and improve while the poor cannot and stay the same. Right now, cloning is not perfected. This means that errors can occur in the process and the result will be abnormalities in the cloned person.
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How Cloning Works
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Cloning works when the nucleus of an egg cell is removed. A donor cell's nucleus is taken out of the donor cell and replaces the nucleus of the egg cell. The egg multiplies and eventually, an exact duplicate of the donor of the donor cell is created.
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What It Means For The Future
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In the future, scientists will be able to clone full organs that will enable people with failing organs to get new ones. This is better than transplanted organs because organ need exceeds organ donation. In addition, the body may reject organs made by other people because everyone has different proteins on their organs to identify it.
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However, some people are afraid people will clone duplicates of themselves to use for spare parts. This reason along with others forced the house to pass a ban on human cloning both for reproduction and research. This will hinder cloning research in the US, but other countries may go ahead with cloning.
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