The Dangers and Ethical Issues of Cloning Human Beings
             The beauty of human life is a magnificent and mysterious phenomenon that brings upon the birth of a unique individual brought forth by the love of the child's parents. It is a time that calls for celebration and social gathering. It is a time to reflect upon, and be thankful for, the gift of a unique individual that has been bestowed upon the family.
             This newly born child is one of a kind with no other beings like it. Its characteristics, intelligence, and personality cannot be duplicated by any natural genetic means. Each human being holds the exact same characteristics: uniqueness, distinctiveness, and individualism.
             Why then would we be willing to hinder our uniqueness, and defy the theory of evolution and natural selection to test the limits of biomedical technology? It seems absurd that we, as humans, the most intelligent living species on the face of the Earth, would want to even consider the idea of taking life into our own hands, rather than letting things happen naturally. Somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning does exactly that. It allows scientist and researchers to duplicate a human's chromosomes and produce an exact replica of an existing human being. Somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning occurs when the nucleus is removed from the somatic cell and transferred to an egg cell which has had its nucleus removed (NBAC, 228). The idea that technology allows us to duplicate the chromosomes of a human being is fascinating and exciting.
             However, the technology has yet to be approved by the government, and more likely than not, our government, who acknowledges the repercussions of such technology, will never approve of somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning. In fact, Congress passed a bill called "The Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997", which the President announced would "outlaw the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer with the intent of implanting the re...