Cloning Editorial

Cloning Editorial

Editorial The same procedures used to clone sheep and cattle could theoretically be used to clone humans. A very important question in today?s world is ?is cloning right?? Some people feel that cloning is very wrong and should be banned forever. Others feel that cloning is one of mans greatest accomplishments and should be experimented on humans. I, along with the majority on the population feel that cloning humans is wrong and should be banned. According to a resent poll 524 people are for human cloning and 598 of the voters are against human cloning.

People are considering the cloning of livestock. But if our cloning technology progresses we might be seeing genetically modified livestock. But the idea of genetically modify the cattle the and the farmer can have as many of those perfect cows has he or she wants. Thankfully their are some technological barriers at the moment that make mass producing clones unrealistic. It took 277 tries just to successfully clone Dolly, the sheep that was cloned in 1997. And even if we did have the technology it would make no sense to clone live stock. Cloning is not cheap. I?m sure farmers have better things to spend their money on. For whatever reason farmers feel that cloning is a good idea for their farm they will come across a big problem. Cloning isn't exact; over generations the clones will be riddled with genetic flaws due to errors being exemplified through each cloning If humans were to clone other humans would it be ?right?? By cloning humans we would better understand the human genome and Further understanding of our past. Another reason for cloning humans is that their is a very long organ transplant waiting lists and if you were to clone humans and harvest their body?s those people on the waiting lists lives would be saved and the waiting list would be no more. This might solve a lot of our problems and answer a lot of questions but all this comes at the expanse of living...

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