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Essay / reproductive cloning - 1657
Reproductive cloning is a term that often gives rise to arguments between individuals. Currently, reproductive cloning is prohibited countywide; However, more and more people are trying to argue that this practice should be legalized. Do we really understand the concept of the term and know what the results could be if reproductive cloning were legalized? Certainly, the idea of cloning may seem like a big step towards improving biotechnology around the world; but, despite this fact, many people are opposed to it. This article will argue that the legalization of reproductive cloning can potentially lead to social, moral and economic problems. For those unfamiliar with reproductive cloning, it is a method in which a professional takes an egg and removes the nucleus. In its place is transferred a somatic cell nucleus with all the desired genetic material. This offers potential parents the opportunity to choose desirable traits in their offspring, such as eye color, height, and even intellect. As ideal as it may seem, reproductive cloning should not be legalized because it ultimately undermines human dignity, poses a serious threat to the survival of humanity and individuality, and can divide people. people's preferences due to monetary benefits. First, reproductive cloning is incompatible with reproductive cloning. dignity and individuality. Cloned people lack originality and are just copies of what we already have. This would result in a society composed of essentially identical or extremely similar people. Can we feel safe and free knowing that somewhere in the world there is a person who is a copy of you? Probably not because feelings like uncertainty and anxiety can start to arise. Humans are meant to be unique with their own o...... middle of paper ......an. But how can we make such assumptions if you are not even allowed to try to clone humans. In conclusion, I think that reproductive cloning should not be legalized because it would lead to new social, moral and economic problems. Ultimately, it opposes human dignity, threatens the survival of humanity and individuality, and goes against humans playing God. Sevanthinathan says reproductive cloning is powerful and has certain advantages and disadvantages. One of the main disadvantages put forward by Nordgren is that, in the ethical presupposition, anomalies can cause suffering to the cloned being, which is completely unethical. On the other hand, Van den Berg, MES, argues that to be sure that reproductive cloning is safe, cloning must be tested on humans, but this contradicts all the factors that would even remotely support the idea of reproductive cloning..