2014+PERIOD+5+CLONING

Is Cloning Wrong?

==Background - To clone is to take and object or organism and make an exact copy of it. Cloning is a relatively new concept that many people do not understand. To clone an organism you must first take the nucleus out of an egg cell from a valid adult, then the cell is fused with another adult cell. The growing cell is then placed into the reproductive system of the foster mother and grows inside until it is born. Cloning is a very delicate process that fails most of the time. There have been many cases of cloning, the first being back in the 1950's! But several have been more famous than others. A very famous clone that most people know about is Dolly the Sheep. She was cloned in 1996 and made a very big impact until she was euthanized because of progressive lung disease. The reason that she was very famous is because she was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.==


 * ===Pros=== || ===Cons=== ||
 * * mass produce health organs/ body parts || * against religious beliefs ||
 * * bring back extinct animals for scientific purposes || * clone uprising ||
 * * Cloning animals can lead to medical breakthroughs || * There are too many risks with cloning ||

Ethnic issues:
Is it wrong or acceptable? People have different views whether it be because of their religion or their morals, also is relates to their positions on various different types of cloning such as using clones as vessels to store organs or to create entirely new organisms.

We believe that some types of cloning are ok and acceptable and others are not. Human cloning we believe is ok when its meant for medical purposes, But when it come to cloning whole organism such as humans or animals we believe its wrong because we believe living things should not be dictated by the others the before them, we believe it should be natural. If this was allowed in the future everyone would wind up the same. And for the religious people out there, “ On the sixth day God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that crept upon the earth.”

[|__http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-human-cloning-wrong__]

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Web Pages-
[|__http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-science/genetics-molecular-medicine/related-policy-topics/stem-cell-research/human-cloning.page__] ? Goes into detail about all the successes and failures of animal cloning, the technology behind cloning, how cloning is actually done, and if we should begin human cloning.

__ [] __ Talks about how certain human cloning breakthroughs are prompting religious objections.



__ [] __ Talks about the unexpected outcomes of human cloning.

News Articles-
__ [] __ Gives information on major scientific breakthroughs on cloning.

__ [] __ Talks about one of the most known cases of cloning.

__ [] __ For the right price you can have your dog cloned.



__ [] __ Advances in science could make it possible for scientists in south korea to clone a woolly mammoth

__ [] __ Congress signs bill banning human cloning.

Blog Posts-
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Talks about how scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time and how this could affect us.

[|__http://www.humancloning.org/about.php__]

Talks about the Human Cloning Foundation and what they are doing.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-22/koreas-sooam-biotech-is-the-worlds-first-animal-cloning-factory This talks about a group of people in South Korea that will clone your dog for $100,000.

Videos-
[|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4vOPaonZng__] Bill Nye talking about cloning

[|__http://www.dnalc.org/view/16992-Cloning-101.html__] takes a little about history and how it happens

[|__http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002496111/dolly-the-sheep.html__] ny times video about cloning the first successful, clone dolly the sheep

[|__http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/through-the-wormhole/videos/through-the-wormhole-human-clones.htm__] sci tv channel wormhole show takes about human cloning. Has Morgan Freeman narrating.

http://www.genome.gov/25020028



Podcast and Radio programs-
http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarethics_podcasts/19/ To Clone or Not to Clone?

http://www.mixcloud.com/layyous/cloning-huma-cloning/ Cloning-Huma Cloning

http://www.philosophyinaction.com/blog/?p=7022 Cloning, Hypocritical Allies, Beauty, and More

Corresponding criticism
Corresponding Criticism Article: [|__http://www.globalchange.com/noclones.htm__] This article discusses the three main issues on cloning as following: **Health risks** - Because the technique for cloning successfully is extremely difficult, often times disfigured monsters with abnormalities are created when attempting to perform animal clones. These clones are also very likely to have a short lifespan due to these abnormalities. **Emotional Risks** - It would be very difficult for a human clone to accept the fact that they were build simply as a replacement for the death of someone else. This would also place a great amount of pressure on the clone that to try to live up to the reputation of the person that he/she is replacing. **Risk of Abusive Technology** - Cloning is criticized as being a dangerous technology that can be abusive because it gives terrorists the opportunity to reproduce stem cells of a person with a deadly contagious disease in order to cause an epidemic.