Cloning
Cloning. Many people associate it with science-fiction novels, not with real life, but animal cloning is a process that is being attempted today all over the world, and human cloning might be next. But should cloning be made illegal? According to the Washington Post, cloning should be made illegal because all nursery rhymes would have to be rewritten: Mary didn't have a lamb, she had two lambs and a sister named Bridget who looked exactly like her. Mary and Bridget went to school one day with both lambs, but the school board threw them out as cloning was against the rules. Also, the role of the father is not important in cloning. He can make one child, but the next is done by Xerox machine. Cloned children, however, would also celebrate Father's Day. All cloning should be made completely illegal because such an insignificant amount of births are successful, nearly all clones have health problems, and the technology is far from perfected. Very few animal clones make it to birth, and the ones that do usually have serious health problems, including physical deformities (such as enlarged umbilical cords) to life-threatening conditions (like being born with no immune system) (Boyce 42). Less than three percent o
Any attempt to clone humans, he said, would be 'reckless and irresponsible' " (Kolata 1). !!!!!!!!!!Although the fluids in the egg cell can largely reset the adult egg cell's !!!!!!!!!!thousands of genes to the proper 'on' and 'off' positions required for embryo !!!!!!!!!!development, the process apparently is imperfect. And of the three or four fetuses that make it !!!!!!!!!!to term, most will be monstrously big - perhaps 15 pounds - and will likely die in !!!!!!!!!!the first week or two from heart and blood vessel problems, underdeveloped !!!!!!!!!!lungs, diabetes or immune system deficiencies. "In prepared statements, researchers object to [human] cloning, not only on moral and religious grounds, but because of health risks to the human clone itself" (Griffith 6). " 'Just before Christmas, we had a cloned lamb that was perfectly formed,' said Ian Wilmut, co-creator of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from a single adult cell. "Scientists estimate that fewer than a quarter of [cloned] newborns would survive without intensive care" (Boyce 43). Because of all of this, cloning should be made illegal. scientists have good reason to be pessimistic: several years of animal cloning work has taught them that most cloned animals never even make it to birth and the rare ones that do all too frequently have [serious health] problems" (Boyce 42). Cloning humans would be just plain wrong. Naturally produced sperm organizes its genetic !!!!!!!!!!material over a period of months; eggs take years to form their DNA. Technical !!!!!!!!!!challenges that can make the process dangerous to cloned offspring, and the !!!!!!!!!!mother, include fetuses that are larger than normal and have a low survival rate. Scientists say that they see some sort of genetic problem almost every time they clone and they do not know what is wrong with the cloning process, or why the clones are not normal.
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