Reproductive Human Cloning Is a Curse rather than a Boon!!!

  Reproductive Human Cloning Is a Curse rather than a Boon!!!  

     Whether or not human cloning should be done has been a debatable issue ever since scientists discovered the technique of cloning. Many might argue that it’s a miracle for mankind, but one can’t deny the unethical and immoral side of it. Reproductive cloning of animals of any form is a risk factor. To put human beings in such a risk will be viciousness. Research shows that there is a high (about 90%) rate of failure and morbidity in animal cloning. Dr. Ian Wilmut (the scientist who cloned dolly, the first cloned sheep) explained to the United States Congress that cloning a mammal involved a high failure rate, since of his 277 “reconstructed” embryos, only 29 were implanted in ewes and only one developed successfully. “Similar experiments with humans would be totally unacceptable”, Wilmut himself concluded (1). Even if a clone is successfully made there are many deformities (physical or mental) which it may have and to live with such distortions will be very difficult. Moreover, our society treats unique things or persons in a very bizarre way as if they don’t belong here. I’m sure if there were clones they would be treated the same which would be an unethical assault on them. Furthermore medical investigations and researches on them would always make them feel like outcasts. I read a fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro called “Never Let em go” which beautifully portrays the life of clones. It talks about their feelings on being used merely as donors of organs, not allowed to marry and unable to reproduce, and I can tell if there ever were clones they would have feeling just like ours whether they had souls or not. Such a treatment with the things that are made in our image is heart-shattering. Some people might argue that cloning humans can bring back the masterminds of the world like Newton, Mendel or Einstein and thus advance our scientific knowledge even more, but think again about our role here: is it that of an intellectual Scientist who put forward the idea of cloning or that of an ineffective one who needs Albert Einstein to come and take Science to a whole new level? What we need the Masterminds of past to do for us why can’t we do that on our own? Isn’t making them only to execute our own purposes selfishness? Many people consider it a-miraculous-boon because it gives infertile couples a chance to have an off spring, but what about personal identity and individuality. No one would want to have a child exactly like themselves or their spouses, and there is no doubt that that child will not be treated normally. So whatever anyone might say, they can’t deny that human cloning is a curse only.

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(1) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001359/135928e.pdf