Scientific View on Human Cloning

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This paper relates that scientists believe if they have the option to work with an unlimited number of human cells through human cloning, they have resources to attempt new procedures and push the limits of scientific knowledge. The author points out that the power of wholesale manufacture of human tissue is the very heart of the debate because human beings are not automobiles, which can roll off an assembly line at the rate of a few per hour. The paper presents the argument of one scientist who compares human cloning to in vitro fertilization: if the human can be conceived outside of the human conjugal act, then why cannot a human be created completely in a laboratory via cloning?

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"The most disturbing acknowledgment Pence makes is that, in his opinion, the whole question of cloning human beings needs to be "Fletcherized." Pence makes this reference to align his viewpoint on cloning with the secular viewpoints of Joseph Fletcher, whose "situation ethics" were successful in devolving religious ethics out of the modern mindset. He was responsible for creating secular degradation three decades ago. While secular society may no be free from the 'regulations and restrictions of religious ethics.' our concern for human live, and perspective that all men and women deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has also been lost somewhere in the argument."

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