The debate on cloning

Cloning is one of the most controversial issues in modern American politics. However, while many people have strong opinions and reactions on the issue, most lack a firm grasp of both history and the various arguments and viewpoints shared by the public.

Cloning is the process of creating an exact copy of the original, and recently, "cloning" refers to the replication of humans and animals live. somatic cell nuclear transfer, because the process is called, involves removing the nucleus from an egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus from one cell organism to be cloned. In recent years there has been progress in both human and animal cloning. famous Scottish scientists cloned a sheep, and British scientists reportedly cloned a human embryo that survived for five days. Cloning is a very controversial subject that forces society to examine the limits of human control over their lives.

In 1997, Scottish scientists produced a famous female sheep "Dolly", using the process of reproductive cloning. Since then, other scientists have cloned other species, including cows and rabbits. More recently, scientists are attempting to reproduce humans through cloning. President Bush and the Republican Party are strongly opposed to human cloning. Conservatives tend to believe that life is a creation, not a commodity ", and that human cloning would have a disastrous impact on the American moral fabric.

There are practical considerations to the cloning debate, as well. Most medical experts believe that reproductive human cloning would not produce a baby health. In fact, many scientists predict that cloning would produce harmful abnormalities in the genes of a child. Many scientists and doctors welcome the advance of cloning for individual human cells. This process, called therapeutic cloning, adopts the concept of cloning on a micro scale, to help regenerate broken or diseased body parts. Some politicians, such as Republican Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, support the idea of therapeutic cloning.

Critics of the process argue that therapeutic cloning should be prohibited, no matter how beneficial the practical applications may be. The most vocal critics of therapeutic cloning, especially by religious communities, argue that the destruction of human life, even at the cellular level, is a moral offense. These cells form the beginning of human life and human beings have no right to destroy life in order to create life. The creation of life, they argue, should be left to God

The cloning debate lends itself to big questions such as: It 's immoral to recreate life artificially? Human life really begin at the cellular level? If the government interfere with scientific advances that could benefit millions of people?