Cloning Essay Research Paper Nicole Pluta November

There are also many negative aspects of cloning. To create different organs or limbs in order to help a person to live longer or more comfortably seems to go against nature. The way human life should be created is through sexual intercourse. Harmond Varmus, a schoolteacher, said it best; ?Human cloning represents a grave attack on the dignity of conception and on the right an unrepeatable, unpredetermined set of genes.? To clone an animal is almost the same thing. We are playing with the way humans and animals have reproduced for years. Is it fair that we clone and then kill an animal just for its organs in order to save a person?s life? Scientists are not even sure that the animal?s organs will be compatible with the human body. According to the Medical Research Modernization Committee (MRMC), studies have shown that biotech products could increase some forms of human cancer, limit the effectiveness of antibiodicts, and cause potentially fatal allergic reactions such as: human growth hormone, L-Tryptoplan, human insulin, and genetically altered foods). (?Is Cloning the Way to Go??)

Although science has come a long way in being able to prolong human life by drugs and surgeries I think it should stop there. With cloning we are going against nature and the outcome of that can not be a good one. I understand that cloning has its good aspects and there are more reasons why cloning should be legal than why it shouldn?t but it is not right. Scientists are willing to clone people at what cost? I know that the book Frankenstein is a little different but look what happens in that book. The creation/monster turned on his creator and began killing people. How do we know that something like that will not happen? This is the kind of thing that happens when people start playing God, ?Human cloning would not result in identical souls because only God can create a soul? James Geraghty said this when asked how he felt about cloning. (?Playing God Through Cloning?)