Human Clone Essay

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The Human Clone Dennis Evans PHI103: Informal Logic Jerry Voltura January, 31, 2011 Part I. Thesis: The possibility of human cloning was raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the sheep named "Dolly" which aroused worldwide interest and concern because of its scientific and ethical implications. Dolly was the first mammal to be cloned and then later was put to sleep by lethal injection due to cancer and arthritis. Due to the success of Dolly more clones have been made with few successful outcomes. Cloning is referred to in two categories; therapeutic and reproductive. Therapeutic cloning has to do with the duplication of a certain type of cell in order to reproduce it and use it for medical purposes. Now, reproductive cloning is referred to as the clone of a whole human being. In cloning, a scientist plucks the DNA containing the copies of all of the mother and father's genes from a fully formed adult cell and inserts it into an egg that has been stripped of its own nucleus of genes. Because there is no conception to spark the creation of an embryo, scientists must somehow reprogram that adult DNA back to the threshold of embryonic development as though fertilization had just occurred. A costly procedure and one that does not produce a 100% outcome Human cloning should not be legal because of the abnormalities that occur when clones are formed. The formation of a human clone with abnormalities would have to be destroyed because it will not thrive, so the scientists who created the clone are now committing murder; an unlawful act. Cloning is also inhuman as it takes away from the natural reproduction processes. There is a low probability of success and cloning takes a lot of tries to get one or two clones to actually
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