Ethical Issues in Human Cloning

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Ethical Issues in Human Cloning

In the modern society , cloning has been described as the man-made genetic duplicate of another living form (United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO] , 2005 . Cloning of mammals has been a far-fetched idea to some scientists for a very long time However , in 1997 , Dr . Ian Wilmut , along with his team , successfully cloned a lamb from a mature ewe (Kass Wilson , 1998 . This announcement has caused a lot of positive and negative responses from medical and non-medical

communities . Protests from religious groups , bioethicists humanitarians , and the general public led former President Clinton , the United States president of that time , to form the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC (Campbell , 1997 . This committee then published a report and concluded that human cloning was morally unacceptable . It was then that government funds have been forbidden to be provided for human cloning research , making it illegal (Kass Wilson , 1998

Critics of human cloning dispute that human cloning provides a number of medical risks that may harm the clone and the progenitor (Huang 2001 . Ninety percent of failure rate and high mortality rates in animal cloning have been reported . Dolly , the first lamb clone , was euthanized for developing old-age diseases despite her young age (Kass Wilson 1998 . To create one successful clone , a huge number of unsuccessful embryos also have to be sacrificed . This concept has resulted in outrage among the critics of cloning for killing innocent clones for the benefit of...