In 1996, Dolly the sheep was born an exact replica of a white Finnish Dorset Sheep using one of the sheep's udder cells. It was on the 277th attempt at cloning that Dolly was finally born.

Dolly suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint and from sheep pulmonary adenomatosis, a virus-induced lung that is common among sheep which are raised indoors. The DNA Dolly was created from contained the chromosomes of a six-year-old sheep, in which the telomeres were shorter than those of normal offspring that tend to live 11 or 12 years. With no surprise, she only ended up living for six and a half years but was able to produce normal, healthy offspring.

Ever since cloning became a tangible reality, the idea of human cloning has been tinkered with. This is where bioethics come into place.

Picture this, cloning is legal among the human race and, of course, the best looking celebrities, the most intelligent, and the richest of people can experiment with cloning themselves. Imagine opening up your Snapchat to see a member of the Kardashian family posting videos of her baby clone. There do not need to be two Kylie Jenners in the world. There does not need to be two of anybody in the world for that matter.

Ethics in cloning is being concerned with the disruption of human nature and human rights. These cloned babies will not have the option to develop into their own unique character but are stuck living in the shadow of their literal replica. The unique and distinctive ethical issues raised by the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer to create children relate to serious safety concerns and to a set of questions about what it means to be human. Now that we know we have the capability clone, we need to incorporate animal rights into the conversation too.

I understand that babies, in general, do not have a say in who their parents are and how they are raised but that simply cannot be controlled; however, cloning can be prevented.