Cloning

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The paper discusses how human cloning is a controversial issue that cannot be overlooked by anyone and how the formula offers few benefits to science, while requiring unacceptable risks and undermining the very concept of our humanness. It shows how some find it acceptable, while others object for various reasons, by providing a brief introduction to the cloning process and examining the arguments for and against. Issues discussed include the advantages of transplants, the reproductive option for people with problems in conception, and cloning a person dying from a non-genetic disease, as well as ethics, the use of embryos, technological problems such as creating abnormalities, religion, and Kant's categorical imperative.

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"One religious argument against cloning is the insinuation of playing God. Genetic blueprints are the province of God and cannot be owned as "patented inventions" by any human being or institution (Donegan 1105). It is ethically disturbing to think that a person could one day possess complete control over someone else's life. That person could control not only whether the other person will live or die, but also will have some say in what traits the other person will acquire. Life is more than a commodity. Anees, an Islamic scholar, argues that the human body is God's property, not man's laboratory (Masci 414). Replacing a dying individual with a clone would distort the meaning of death as we see and face it today. It would alter the whole process of life through death. Right now we can replace a fused light bulb, but later we may be replacing dead or "injured" humans. Is it acceptable for us to replace our loved ones with their copies? Does this not undermine human dignity? "

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