Is human cloning unethical?

Human Cloning : Is It Ethical or Not

Abstract

This study examined the ethical aspect of human cloning . By considering the promises and perils which it could bring to mankind as well as by scrutinizing the arguments of both supporters and opponents of employment of human cloning the study tried to define whether human cloning can be regarded as unethical procedure . The argumentation considered in the study testifies that there is not unanimous consent among the scholars as to ethical justifiability of human cloning although the most scepticism of its opponents could

be easily rebutted

In sum , the study demonstrated that human cloning can and has to be regarded as ethical procedure provided that it is properly used , as it promises substantial advantages in treating infertility , in transplantology and other branches of medical science

Human Cloning : Is It Ethical or Not

On February 22 , 1997 , the news that scientists had cloned an adult animal - the sheep Dolly - spread round the globe (Cantrell , 1998 ,

br 69 . Unsurprisingly , as the possibility of cloning humans emerged on the horizon , people were worrying about the morality of using the new technology . Then and now they have been anxious about the ethical bs that might be crossed when duplicate humans can be produced by separating the cells of a newly fertilized human egg or , in the more distant future , by creating a zygote from an existing person 's genetic material

When Dolly 's birth was announced , countries throughout the world had already initiated efforts to prohibit human cloning . Australia , Denmark United Kingdom , Germany , and Spain are among the countries outlawing human cloning (Walters , 2004 ,

. 5 . Opposition came from other groups including the World Health Organization , numerous religious bodies such as the Vatican , and even the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Outlawed in one way or another by numerous nations , damned by the General Assembly of the World Health Organization as "ethically unacceptable and contrary to human integrity and morality , prohibited by the European Commission with its Biotechnology Patents Directive , by the Council of Europe with its Bioethics Convention , and by UNESCO with its Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights , without a doubt human cloning received massive disapproval (Gillon , 2001 ,

. 184 . But not all scholars agreed with those conclusions and many did not support such rapid passing of banning legislations on human cloning (Childress 2003 ,

. 17 . The purpose of this study is to reveal whether human cloning is really unethical as the public opinion and most governments consider it . Toward this end we will investigate the advantages and weaknesses of human cloning , explore carefully the arguments of both advocates and opponents of it , consider possible consequences of human cloning implementation in our life , and make the conclusions

For an entire planet standing at a critical crossroads , cloning offers both promises and perils . For humans the promises extend into all sorts of possibilities , such as finding drugs that would alleviate serious diseases , cultivating one 's own bone marrow as well as solid organs...