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Ethics and Controversy of Human Cloning

By: Mitchell Smith, Owen Harnishfeger, and Sadie Helberg

More Pros

How it might work

  • scientists have succeeded in cloning animals, stem cells, and tissue
  • likely use the same process (SCNT) to create a human clone
  • It could eliminate defective genes.
  • It aids in faster recovery from traumatic injuries.
  • Human cloning can replace damaged organs to save lives

More Pros

  • It is considered as the logical next step in reproductive technology.
  • It gives a new meaning to genetic modification.
  • Could eliminate infertility

Pros

  • It can get rid of some disorders
  • Human cloning could have medical breakthroughs that can save thousands of lives
  • Could save endangered species.

What is human cloning?

The process of creating a genetically identical copy of a human.

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

2. Take the nucleus from a cell of the person being cloned and fuse it together with the enucleated egg. (electricity)

No one has ever successfully cloned a human.

Uniqueness

Everyone will live in the same house, have the same job, and be as boring as ever.

Raised in a Shadow

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

Cloned children would undoubtedly be raised in the shadow of their genetic donor.

Cons

3. Take the newly created embryo and implant it into a surrogate mother.

4. The birth of a clone.

  • Children will be modified to create a “perfect” being.

  • Cloning would diminish the idea of uniqueness.

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

1. Take the unfertilized egg of a female donor and create an enucleated egg by removing the nucleus.

Cloning is Unsafe

Thank you!

Reproductive cloning is considered unsafe. At least 99% of mammals cloned have resulted in failure.

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