People seem to lightly throw around the word cloning without really understanding what it refers to. Cloning is simply a way to replicate a copy of the DNA. The process itself is considered unethical due to reasons of human uncertainty with the relations to human correspondence. Some of the positive sides with the process of cloning include a population increase and a decrease in death rates. As many people know that the first known sheep to be cloned was named Dolly. It was one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs to have occurred in the past decades. There was even a cloning of the first primate embryos of a rhesus monkey in 2006. As technology began to increase, so did the extensive research to uncover the grey areas they still needed to understand.
Human reproductive cloning is what it is essentially called to discuss human cloning. There are still many cases similar to this that scientists have discovered in progression, however, the success rate is still one in four. Crazy enough, a South Korean scientist, Hwang Woo, reported that he replicated 11 human embryos to extract stem cells, however, his findings were proven false. There has yet to be a single person who can fully clone an individual. Aside from science, from a moral standpoint, many people are reluctant to continue the research due to religious affiliation. Questions such as whether or not the cloned being should have the equivalence of any other human or if it should be permissible or seek human eggs for science and other continuing chains of questions that pause the ability to continue further research.
From a medical point of view, there are many benefits to human cloning, which many people overlook when researching the subject. With cloning, there can be a reversibility of infertility. A couple that is unable to have children is guaranteed to be fertile. Also, keeping in mind that heart disease is one of the main causes of death in the United States; the technology of human cloning is able to treat patients with heart disease and cloning their healthy cells over the damaged ones.
Recreating the process of reproduction is a groundbreaking new discovery for the future, however, it is bound to test the ethical boundaries of humans. The technology of human cloning can be very beneficial with the science to back it up. The creation may lead to an increase in the human population along with an increase in birth rates. The ability to test on human subjects is still far from the bird’s eye view, however, it can definitely lead to it in the future as technology advances progressively. So as the science still advances, the rest is up to the society. Is the medical and scientific benefits worth letting go of the moral and ethical sides of humanity?
