Cloning: Not My Last Resort

             Five years into the future, my husband and I are finally ready to start a family. We are sitting in the doctor's office waiting for the good news that I am pregnant, but instead we are devastated to find out that I am unable to conceive. Even in vitro fertilization is not an option. However, cloning has become a very popular alternative of reproduction. This option could work for my husband and me. Would I resort to cloning? My answer is no.
             My first and most important reason for saying no to using cloning for reproductive purposes is that, if in the unfortunate circumstance I am unable to conceive in the future, I would like to adopt a child. According to the AFCARS report of April 2001, 588,000 children were in foster care on March 30, 2000 and approximately 127,000 of those children were free for adoption. The numbers keep increasing. Our history shows that this is true. In January 2000, there were 520,000 children in foster care and 117,000 of those children were available for adoption (Children's Bureau). Cloning should not be a reproduction alternative when so many children are waiting for a loving home.
             Cloning is dehumanizing. There are proposals to prevent human cloning, but as William Keeler states, " the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and some members of congress favor legislation that would not ban human cloning at all – but would simply ban any effort to allow cloned human beings to survive"(Keeler). In other words, the embryos would have to be destroyed. I believe life begins at conception and this is destruction of the embryos would be no different than murder. It is as Charles Krauthammer so truthfully says, "While a human embryo may not be a person, that does not mean it is nothing"(p. 226).
             Cloning takes the intimacy out of procreation. A third person is brought in, the scientist. Louise Brown was the first child successfully conceived by in vit...

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