In 1997, the first clone of a sheep named Dolly was created. This embryo had a success rate of between 1 and 4%. When applied to humans, this percentage may decrease and become lower and more unpredictable. With lives at stake, is it worth risking the embryos involved in the unstable process? While cloning may enable new medical procedures and research into diseases and cures, it distances us from the natural biological order of life and allows humans to “play God,” while creating a margin for error that could lead to many defects. When it comes to human cloning, moral dilemmas arise and one can have many positions for and against each of them. To understand the issues surrounding human cloning, you need to have a basic idea of what the process is and how it impacts people's lives. Cloning is an asexual reproduction in which the being would not be another relative of a person, but a new form of relationship as a clone (F). Cloning is a process by which a genetically identical twin is formed from a person's DNA (I). The cloning process begins when a donor cell is taken and DNA is extracted from it (I). Subsequently, the nucleus of the organism to be cloned is inserted (I). The cell is now combined with DNA and cellular form; the cell is then inserted into the egg (I). It is then stimulated by electrical or chemical means to force division and becomes an embryo (I). Finally, the embryo is implanted into a surrogate mother in the same process as artificial insemination (I). After Dolly was cloned, “progressive improvements in cloning technology allowed researchers to generate clones of mouse, cattle, goat, pig, deer, rabbit, cat, mule, and horse” (A). No evidence supports human cloning, but researchers have obtained... halfway through the paper... Framework for understanding the thinning public debate." Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate Chicago: University of Chicago, 2002. 12-13. Print.Farnsworth, Joseph. "To clone or not to clone: the ethical question." Web. 12 February 2014. "Human cloning: never and why not Politics Illinois, 2000. 100. Print. "The Pros and Cons of Human Reproductive Cloning." Home |. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Agency, nd. Web. All the reasons for cloning humans." HumanCloning.org. Human Cloning Foundation, nd Web. 12 February. 2014.
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