Essay | Human Lives for Human Life

Human Lives for Human Life

I fail to understand how there can possibly be arguments in support of human cloning. It took Scottish scientists two hundred seventy- seven attempts to successfully clone Dolly, the first identical genetic twin produced from the mixing of genes from an older sheep's utter and "the reproductive machinery of a sheep's egg" (Sanchez-Sweatman, 13). Human genetics are more complex than animal genetics and considering the amount of attempts it took to produce Dolly, how many human abnormalities and miscarried feutuses will be necessary to successfully clone a human? This only leaves doubt about the safety and physical harms of human cloning, and not to mention the violation of two characteristics that helped our founding fathers define our nation, individuality and uniqueness.

At the current time it is understood that cloning humans is unsafe because attempting so will result in miscarriages and abnormalities...
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