Health & Medical Volume 1 April 2014 | Page 8

The Course Driving Question

Giving a human a freshly cloned organ, will only assist them to live longer than what has already been planned for them. Continuation of organ cloning will cause major issues in the world; for example, there would be a lot of dead fetuses, animals and even many people, making it hard for individuals to survive on.

Organ cloning takes away individuals uniqueness. Yes, every organ cloned is the exact replica of the original organ, but this is a problem. Organ cloning destroys uniqueness of the organ or child that was cloned from. Professor Bertha Alvarez Manninen from Arizona State University explains the issue involving of the primary source losing it’s uniqueness, reading “cloning would, necessarily, entail a violation of the cloned child’s right to a distinctive genetic identity… Because cloning recreates a pre-existing DNA sequence, the cloned child would be denied that uniqueness and, therefore, her dignity would be compromised” (.iep.utm.edu). This is an example proving that the uniqueness of organisms would be lost after cloning. Scientists are recreating what God has already produced and by doing so scientists are destroying organism’s dignity and uniqueness.

All in all, organ cloning should be withheld from the United States and shouldn’t be practiced in the medical field because of the countless examples of how it brings about major issues. “After much debate and speculation around the world over the years, it is the general conception that cloning humans does more harm than good and therefore its study and development should be held captive, at least for now”(akorra.com). Cloning brings too must of a risk and being placed upon the world today will only bring conflicts in the future.

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