Farewell to the Fiction in the Science of Cloning
In his 1930's futuristic novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley predicted a society where the human race was created in a laboratory and carried to term in incubators. At the time it was regarded as being ludicrously impossible. The idea of cloning in the eighties required multiple reproductions of specialized cells. Even then, the possibility of cloning was unachievable. Recently, scientists cloned a lamb, simply by replicating the cell in the skin tissue. It is now happening in all parts of the world: Scotland, England, America, and Australia. As technology increases, doubts and "what-ifs" turn into realities. Three essays were examined concerning cloning endangered and extinct animals and the benefits and detriments of therapeutic cloning. Matt Ridley, from the article "The Lure of Detinction", claims there is "finally a noble use for cloning. To date," he states, "it has only been promised to serve the human race's vanity, by producing doppelgangers, and hypochondria, by providing spare livers. But with the announcement that cloning has been applied to vanished species, to reverse their extinction, it suddenly seems a rather higher calling" (1-4). A Massachusetts's company has taken the first steps by cloning a rare Indian
wild ox embryo called a guar and implanting it into a cow. In contrast, the article "Human cloning is wrong" provides an opposing viewpoint over therapeutic cloning. If this is the case, there was never enough money present in the funding to begin with. Why drop a highly possible treatment before its potential can be realized? To do so would be anti-intellectual and unscientific. Once successful, the company plans to do the same for a recently extinct Spanish goat called a bucardo. Since an embryo younger than 14 days is essentially a ball of cells, scientists believe they can tweak the ball to develop into the kind of specialized tissue or organ needed for the patient. " The arguments used I found to be one-sided and judgmental. For instance, this essay suggests dropping therapeutic cloning for adult stem cell cloning. After digesting the material, I have come to the conclusion that cloning, both therapeutic and reproductive, is essential and inevitable, aside from human reproductive cloning. As long as therapeutic and reproductive cloning are closely monitored and regulated, only benefits are possible. Liam Donaldson, Britain's Chief Medical Officer, personally handed in the recommendation over lifting the ban for therapeutic cloning research to the Prime Minister, as documented in "UK gives OK to human cloning for research," by Pezzella. Many feel that cloning will only provide negative effects for the future. In addition to reviving extinct animals, Great Britain is currently requesting permission to pursue what is called therapeutic cloning.
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