Dangers of Human Cloning

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Some may think human cloning is a good thing; however, I believe these individuals are uninformed on the many dangers of cloning. Cloning, none the less, human cloning has yet to be perfected. This has been proven by physicians from the American Medical Association and scientists with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They have issued public statements strongly advising against human cloning. Currently, the U.S. Congress is reviewing the passage of legislation that could make human cloning illegal. After knowing that human cloning is dangerous, why would scientists tamper with the genetic makeup of human beings? Human cloning is extremely dangerous; one is taking a risk every time they attempt to clone something or someone. Knowing how dangerous animal cloning is, it would be traitorous to attempt human cloning (www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml). With the technology we have now, only one or two viable offspring are created for every 100 experiments.

Dolly the Sheep, the first completely cloned mammal, is known worldwide. Dolly is looked at as a completion of cloning success. In all actuality, it took 277 tries to clone Dolly until the ?healthy? Dolly was created (www.cs.virginia.edu).

I feel such risks should not be taken on human beings. There is health risks involved, such as mutation from genes. Joe B. Massey, the co-director of Reproductive Biology Associates at the Atlanta Fertility Clinic says, ?The technology we have now, can?t insure that the newborn baby will be normal.? The genetics from an adult could be passed on to their newborn baby, which means the baby could be born looking like an adult (www.cs.virginia.edu). We have seen through animal cloning, the disfigurements produced from cloning. In fact, 30% of animals cloned and born alive have ?large offspring syndrome? and other health conditions (http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml#ethics#ethics). The same outcome would be expected...