Why Human Cloning Should Be Illegal

             A basketball team with five Michael Jordan's just wouldn't be fair, even against the best team in the league. If human cloning was legal, that is the kind of thing the world would be facing. People could clone anyone and use it against other people to hurt them or even kill people; anything would be possible. Human cloning would bring about a whole new era of lies, deception and criminal behavior among human kind. If human cloning is legalized then a mother can have a daughter, and they could be twins. A mother could have a son, and her husband could be his twin. It would just create chaos in the world, unhumane, and unethical situations for the government and the people to have to figure out. Human cloning mistakes would be abortion, which as of right now is still considered murder.
             The project for cloning the famous sheep, Dolly, was started back in 1970. She was cloned by a "somatic cell nuclear transfer." (Jones) A single cell from her mother's egg and a mammary cell were fused together. After they are fused together, the cell turned into an embryo, which was "implanted in a surrogate sheep." (Jones) The embryo then turned into a lamb that was genetically identical to the "donor sheep." (Jones) Scientists didn't create Dolly on the first try. It took them two hundred and seventy-seven tries before they actually created her. She of course died because cloning means a shorter life span and more health complications. (Jones)
             According to the republican representative, Dave Weldon of Florida, human cloning is both unsafe and unethical. He has created a bill against human and embryonic cloning. Even cloning sheep, mice, cows, and pigs should be illegal. Everyone keeps claiming that there are "therapeutic" purposes behind cloning, but in all reality there are no reasons or purposes at all. Weldon believes that human cloning is disrespect towards human life. Man is trying ...

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