Essay About Clone Dolly And Dead Person

Individuality Vs the Perfect World
Individuality Vs the Perfect World
Imagine the world as only beautiful people. Everywhere you look is a Cindy Crawford
look-a-like: 59″, brown hair, brown eyes, and the perfect smile. A “Master Race.” Do we really
want to reenact Adolf Hitlers plan of seeking world domination killing million upon millions as
a “final solution?” Instead of killing, wed be reproducing millions, going against nature. Say
we went and got one of Princess Dianas cells and implanted that in an egg that was then placed
into a surrogate mother. Nine months later, we would have a baby Princess Diana. Only trouble
is, this baby would only resemble Princess Diana in looks, not personality, character, or
individuality. Her whole life wouldnt be what it had been; she wouldnt be “her.” What if your
newborn son died? Just think; you could have a second chance. Is this morally or ethnically
right? Cloning of humans should be forbidden, but cloning of human body parts for medicinal
purposes should be allowed.
Cloning hasnt been a big issue or ever thought to have actually been made to work until
1997 with the successful birth of a lamb named Dolly. Out of 277 eggs implanted in different
sheep mothers, Dolly was the only lamb successfully born. The method used to clone Dolly was
scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland took a cell out of the mammary gland. They then
used an electrical pulse to coax an adult cell into merging with a host egg whose nucleus had
been removed . This method being very unsuccessful brought on a new one where scientists
used mice, injecting just the adult nucleus into a nucleus free host instead of using an electrical
pulse. They also had let it set for two hours before stimulating it to start dividing. The success
rate was 2-3 in 100. Now knowing that we could clone sheep and mice, scientists were up to the
possibility and challenge of cloning humans. As soon as it became public knowledge that
cloning was really happening and becoming more successful, the USA imposed a ban on federal
funding for human-cloning research. Several states have established restrictions, some even
banning cloning completely.
Cloning is not morally or ethnically right. Morally, scientists would be taking the role of
God. If a clone dies, where would they go? In religious beliefs, clones would have no souls
because God didnt create them. Cloning would alter the definition of ourselves. To clone a
dead person with their DNA would only make another person that would look exactly the same
minus their personality, character, talents, memories, scars, and life. Can you imagine raising a
cloned child? As they grew up it wouldnt be the same. They would be thought of as a “special
child”, that is if they were even born correctly. The odds of even having a human clone born
with out defects are very, very slim. The child would go through grade school probably all right
until it come time for family life. It comes home and it is now your time to explain the “birds
and bees” speech. Are you going to explain that he/she is different than all other kids and is a big
scientific study or are you going to lie? Either way, youre going to have to live with the
consequences. Dolly was cloned from a sheep cell that was about