The Risk
Stem Cell Research
The risk of human cloning is very simple and plain to see. In the process of human cloning there you have to extract an embryo from the mother and inject a sperm cell into that embryo. This is very dangers because you are playing with an unborn child's life. Some might say it doesn't matter since the child is unborn but every human life should be given a fair chance and I believe that if one tries to genetically engineer a human by cloning cuts a babies chance to life in half. Even if the child is born there could be complications such not growing right, tumors, and other abnormalities. Dolly,the first cloned mammal, took 277 tries before successfully cloning her. As a society are we really that cruel to destroy so many possible lives in the name of research. I know against those odds most people would disagree because think of it as your little baby you wouldn't want your baby to be killed in the name of research or be born with different abnormalities. Using cloning to figure out more about the human development is fine because no lives are at danger and that has really no downfalls to it. Stem cell research,the investigation of basic cells which develop organisms, will ultimately lead to different cures and advancements for society but trying to clone a single human being is madness and really serves no purpose. Even if human cloning would be passed as a law there is noway on can perfect it because the the side effects of the procedure varies with every procedure. I think that we should leave cloning at the cellular level as it is now. The process called therapeutic cloning, "Much research is being done in developing therapeutic cloning that can be used against life-threatening disease such as AIDS, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, etc. So far, the general strategy involves collecting cells from the patient, creating totipotent cells, differentiating the cells into the necessary tissue type, multiplying the cells, if necessary correcting genetic errors in those cells that are responsible for the disease, and implanting the cells back again. For instance, it may be possible to use cells obtained this way to replace the dying neurons in Alzheimer's disease and thus treating this horrible neurodegenerative disease. Overall, the potential stem cells have is enormous and as engineering problems are progressively solved, this field has the potential to change medicine" ("Cloning: Hopes and Fears of Human Cloning and Stem Cells.").
