Cloning

Paper Summary:

This paper takes a look cloning, a subject that has become some what of an issue of contention. The paper reviews the various issues surrounding the idea of cloning and discusses how that even without cloning, science will still find ways to engineer body parts and prolong healthy life, like it has done over the last hundreds and thousands of years.

Outline:
What is Cloning?
Cloning of Mammals
Therapeutic Cloning
Advantages of Cloning
Conclusions

From the Paper:

"There are of course advantages of therapeutic cloning and some would argue of reproductive cloning too but I believe that the potential disadvantages outweigh the advantages and many learned scientists also believe that cloning is unethical. Thirty three countries have already banned human cloning: they include Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom [Center for Genetics and Society, 2003] . In a UN debate on cloning the United Nations decided to abandon any treaty on human cloning for the time being. Fifty member states including the United States were pushing to ban all forms of human cloning. Fourteen other countries -- including Britain, Japan and China -- were lobbying for a ban only on production of babies. That would allow scientists to use "stem cells" gathered from human embryo clones for medical treatments [Biever, 2005]"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ato-del-Avellanal, R., Advantages of Cloning, [Online] Retrieved from Internet on 7th April 2006, http://lawoffices.freeyellow.com/page57.html
• Biever, C., [Online] Retrieved from Internet on 7th April 2006, "UN abandons legal ban on human cloning," NewScientist.com, 9 March 2005.
• Center for Genetics and Society, 2003, [Online] Retrieved from Internet on 7th April 2006, http://www.genetics-and-society.org/policies/other/cloning.html
• Cloning Discussions, [Online] Retrieved from Internet on 7th April 2006, http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000427.html
• Cloning, Scientific American, May 1997, 276(5), pp. 15-16

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