Should Human Cloning be allowed?

In this advancement of science, there is a new element added to the study of biology, which is human cloning. Cloning is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. However, should human cloning be allowed in this world? That is the question that many people all over the world have been debating. Some said that it is wrong and some agreed to do that. Some scientists found that human cloning would be nothing but beneficial to human race. For now, the law does not allow human cloning. So, should the law allow human cloning?

                Human cloning would be a positive harbinger for mankind. Scientists have been working hard on finding the cures for many present diseases which cannot be cured, but still cannot manage to discover ones. If human cloning was allowed in our nation, the study of health would drastically improve. Those diseases which cannot be cured for so long may finally have an answer for it. For example, AIDS. This is a well-known illness that damages the human immune system. There are no treatments available for this virus. With cloning, scientists could able to copy and create more white blood cells to fight off this deadly virus. This would save millions of innocent lives. Clones would also be the best organ donors. When a person has kidney failure, she does not have to suffer from several pains and she can be a healthy person again sooner. This is because of clone. Clone is an exact copy and she does not have to worry about whether her kidney can accept or not.

                Similarity, there have been some married couples facing problems of infertility, meaning they are unable to give birth. Many of these unfortunate couples desperately want children, so they go for adoption. However, the problem is those adopted kids are not actually blood related with them. With cloning, scientists managed to clone a child with their genes. He would be exact copy of one parent's DNA and live like a normal person. Cloning is the perfect solution for making many infertility women to have their own biologically related children and helps to increase human race.

                However, a handful of wary people say that cloning is unethical. There are some dangerous risks in human cloning especially in medical field. We know that all human beings will be identical in human cloning. It means that entire human is at a risk of getting infected by the same type of disease. In scientific point of view, if everyone has the same type of genes, then everyone will infected by the same virus because they all cannot defend against the same kind of serious disease. This will cause cloning become a detrimental in terms of a great disaster. A newborn baby which is genetically cloned from his mother’s DNA fragment may have the risk to get the same disease as his mother.  This is because the gene which is used to clone the baby carried the virus and caused the baby to be infected too.

                Moreover, this human cloning procedure is still questionable. The reason many scientists and most individuals feel concerned about cloning, is the uncertainty that comes with it. Scientists don't know how long clones will live or how productive their lives will be. There is also no guarantee that cloning is safe, even for the clones. In cloning Dolly, it resulted in the death of many embryos and newborns before success achieved. This shows that there is no 100% success for human cloning. In addition, even if the human clone survived, it is not guaranteed that it would develop normally. The genetic material in human cloning might have inherited genetic or other abnormal symptoms.

                In a conclusion, human cloning helps in making new medical discoveries and improve our knowledge. The cloning of humans could be the greatest achievement of medical science and it could lead the way to the solution to some of humanity's greatest problems. Although there is still some uncertainty of human cloning, with the new advancements of science and the rapid growth of technology in this field, we could continue to explore, research, and learn just as we have been doing for several years. Who knows what we will discover next! 

                                                                                                                                                               

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