Human Cloning isn't as scary as it sounds
Date Submitted: 04/25/2003 14:46:29
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1327 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1327 words)
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Human Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds
The recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep--in which the
sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to produce a lamb
with identical DNA--has generated an outpouring of ethical concerns. These
concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous sheep, nor even about the
considerable impact cloning may have on the animal breeding industry, but
rather about the possibility of …
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…questions are about genetic engineering, which is a different issue than
cloning. Cloning is a crude method of trait selection: It simply takes a
pre-existing, unengineered genetic combination of traits and replicates it.
I do not wish to dismiss the ethical concerns people have raised regarding
the broad range of assisted reproductive technologies. But we should
acknowledge that those concerns will not be resolved by any determination
we make regarding the specific acceptability of cloning.
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