Why Cloning Should Not be Allowed

Cloning, sometimes seen as the savior to our problems, from saving or curing us from cancer, AIDs or even Parkinson’s, but cloning isn’t all ‘holy-grail’ for some people, some believe that cloning is totally against God’s will or that does not equate life with conception. Actually groups oppose this includes the Christians, the Jewish, and many scientific and governmental groups. The cost of cloning animals and humans is colossus, even more when the research or experiment fails. The thing that everyone fears is the side effects, because of the very low chance of success without any defects is well under 20% in fact it could be lower than 5%, many suspected that Dolly the sheep was one of the victims, some suspected that her aging got accelerated. Imagine cloning a cow then the clone was born to only have three legs or even six?

For those who don’t exactly know what cloning is, cloning has many types, not just cloning…there is molecular cloning, cloning using cloning rings, research cloning, asexual cloning, horticultural cloning and reproductive cloning. Most of these you shouldn’t worry about but the ones that you need to know is research cloning, molecular cloning and reproductive cloning. Molecular cloning is just copying certain fragments of the DNA, cloning through cloning rings is just cloning organisms like bacteria and fungi. Research cloning or therapeutic cloning is not to create the exact clone but to clone a specific thing to be harvested like stem cells to treat diseases and to study human development. Asexual cloning is the cloning of things like insects and plants, and reproductive is cloning of complete animals and humans genetically identical. And the last one horticultural cloning is cloning of the plants.

One of the many reasons why cloning of humans and animals should be discouraged is that the ethics of cloning out-weigh most other arguments made for cloning. One group, the UNESCO (Universal Declaration on Human Genome and Human Rights) said “cloning contradicts human nature and dignity, cloning is asexual reproductive mode, which could distort generation lines and family relationships, and limit genetic differentiation which ensures that human life is largely unique.”Also they mentioned that we will be turned into manufactured objects and will interfere with evolution. Other arguments came from religious orders and point of views, from the Christians’ view they believe cloning violates God’s will or the natural order of life and Judaism just does not equate life with conception. Here I’ll leave a few things for anyone to think about, all non-human animals has moral rights as living entities like humans, but why can’t non-human animals have the same moral rights as humans? Another one is like this, not really ethical but legally, it’s about identity, since both clone and the original are genetically identical, which is the real individual? Since both are the same who will be charged if anyone of the two breaks the law when they both look the same?