Human Cloning: Should This Be Legal

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Human Cloning : Should This Be Legal

Cloning pertains to various processes which entails the copying of a gene , a cell , a plant , an animal or even a human being . This practice has enabled the biotechnology industry to produce new ways of treating previously incurable diseases such as diabetes and hemophilia (Johnson 1 . In referring to humans , human cloning is the method for creating human beings that are genetically indistinguishable . It is the asexual duplication of

a living organism or individual or a copy of a DNA sequence produced by genetic engineering (Kanchan et al 125 Recombinant DNA technology or DNA cloning involves the transfer of the concerned DNA fragment from one organism to another self-replicating genetic element . This procedure has been present since the 1970s and has turned out to be a widespread practice in laboratories nowadays . The first ever animal to be cloned was a tadpole n 1952 while the first mammal be cloned from an adult animal is a sheep named Dolly . After Dolly , researches have focused on cloning a variety of animals such as sheep , goats , pigs , goats , cows , mice , etc (Cloning Fact Sheet

Human reproductive cloning is aimed to create a newborn that is genetically similar to another human being . The method associated with this assisted reproductive technology is termed as nuclear transplantation or somatic cell nuclear transfer . At first , the nucleus of an egg cell is removed and replaced by another nucleus of a cell of an adult . The newly reformed egg cell is subjected to stimulants to develop cell division . A successful division allows the cell to be divided several times to generate a blastocyst which is composed of about 150 cells . An implanted blastocyst can form into a fetus which develops further which then forms into a newborn . Organisms formed via this procedure need not to be exact copies of the adults due to their different prenatal and postnatal atmosphere though they have identical nuclear genes with those of the original adult cells (U .S . Policy-makers and Cloning Fact Sheet

Many people have considered the practice of human cloning . Some people would want to recover people who have passed away , some wanted to improve and enhance the human race by contributing to medical researches and for some , just out of curiosity , they want to give it a try . Human cloning poses an effective answer to infertility , cell replacements to defective genes as well as for transplants , and other aspects on basic research on human diseases . Human cloning could have been a part of the answer to our innumerous problems worldwide on how to enhance and strengthen the human race but , isn 't tampering human lives too much

Human cloning has always been a loud issue because of its accompanied ill-effects or , for this case , the moral , ethical or social issues that need to be answered by the technology itself . Reproductive cloning is pricey and highly wasteful or unproductive . Despite...