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The Issue of Human Cloning-
Title: The Issue of Human Cloning-
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1346 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Issue of Human Cloning-
The Issue of Human Cloning-
The recent news of the successful cloning of an adult sheep-in
which the sheep's DNA was inserted into an unfertilized sheep egg to
produce a lamb with identical DNA-has generated an outpouring of
ethical concerns. These concerns are not about Dolly, the now famous
sheep, nor even about the considerable impact cloning may have on the
animal breeding industry, but rather about the possibility of cloning
humans. For the most …showed first 75 words of 1346 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1346 total…questions are about genetic
engineering, which is a different issue than cloning. Cloning is a
crude method of trait selection: It simply takes a pre-existing,
unengineered genetic combination of traits and replicates it.
I do not wish to dismiss the ethical concerns people have
raised regarding the broad range of assisted reproductive
technologies. But we should acknowledge that those concerns will not
be resolved by any determination we make regarding the specific
acceptability of cloning.
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