Clata, Clone: The Road To Dolly And The Path Ahead

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Animal Cloning and Experimentation | March 22 2011 | logan ward | logan ward PHI 110 | A question that has plagued scientific and philosophical minds for many years is whether the experimentation and cloning of animals is ethical. This same question has caused more questions to arise again and again; such as, should we exploit animals for our own benefit? Do our rights override that of animals, and if they do, should we be allowed to decide the fate of these animals? Furthermore, what are we to do with these animals when we have cloned them or when we have finished our experimentations on their cells? Are these clones really animals, or are they just scientific facsimiles? Because there are no clear-cut answers to these questions, opposing opinions are argued, sides are taken, and even organizations are founded to address this issue. Many of the reasons for justifying the cloning of…show more content…
Cloning and experimentation on animals, though thought to be justifiable in some cases, is at its root, unethical and immoral and should not be imposed on innocent animals now or in the future. We are not God. Endnotes 1. Gina Kolata, Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998) 185. 2. Gina Kolata, Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998) 185-186. 3. American Anti-Vivisection Society, Ethics, http://www.endanimalcloning.org/ethics.shtml (2010.) 4. American Anti-Vivisection Society, Ethics, http://www.endanimalcloning.org/ethics.shtml (2010.) 5. Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, and Colin Tudge, The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control (U.K.: Headline Book Publishing, 2000) 45-46. 6. Niemann H, Tian XC, King WA, Lee RS (February 2008). "Epigenetic reprogramming in embryonic and foetal development upon somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning". Reproduction 135(2): 151–63.
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