Human Cloning Should Be Legal
...legal, one must first learn about cloning. Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another organism. According to Kevin Taylor, a professor at the University of Utah, there are two different ways in which to clone an organism: artificial embryo twinning and somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT (Taylor par. 6-9). Taylor describes how in artificial embryo twinning, the birth process is copied but in a Petri dish. This is done by separating an embryo into individual cells and then allowing the cells to divide and develop on their own. The embryos are then placed into a woman who carries the embryos until they develop and are born. Taylor explains that in SCNT a cell from a donor is taken and the nucleus is transferred into an awaiting egg from which its original nucleus has been removed. The egg with its new nucleus is then placed in a woman and begins to develop (Taylor par. 10). Both methods of cloning lead to the final result, looking exactly like the organism they were cloned. The Office of Biological and Environmental Research further examines cloning into two different types of cloning: reproductive and therapeutic. Reproductive cloning is used to create an organism that has the same DNA as an already existing organism. This type of cloning can be used if a family had an only child who suddenly died and wanted to have a similar looking child back, to even reproduce a favorite pet that died, or to possibly even clone organs at a later time. In therapeutic cloning, human embryos are produced and stem cells are harvested from the embryos. After the stem cells are harvested the embryo dies but the stem cells in turn can be used to treat diseases (U.S. Gov. par. 10-11).
Leon Kass, a professor at the University of Chicago, and James Wilson, a professor at the University of California, state that cloning has been around since the...
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