Term Papers on Cloning

Term Paper Title	Cloning
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Cloning

One can imagine lying in bed with the knowledge that they have only a week to live.  This prognosis is brought on because the person needs a new heart, liver, kidney, or any other life saving organ.  Now that the realization of what has transpired hits this person it is time to find an organ donor.  It could be the next car crash victim or someone from the immediate family.  However, the odds of finding a donor grim.  Wouldn't it be nice if the technology to clone a perfectly matching organ to replace the faulty one existed?  This is the problem with today's society.  Too many people are afraid of the future.  Cloning, like any other science is hindered by the general public's fear of the unknown.  Whether it is a single cell to a full human, cloning research is a major next step in scientific development.  It is easy to understand why people fear the unknown, but it is hard to figure out why they can't take a step back and realize that cloning is basically an extension of current and accepted practices.  Also, the general public's fear shows up in the nation's congress and even the president.  Who knows the real opinions of the individuals in congress, but as long as the general public is against cloning, politicians will be too, so they can gain support from voters.  Even with all these setbacks, there are still major uses for cloning research.  Uses that will never present themselves unless people put down their moral, ethical, and religious shields and allow the research to take its course.  Regardless of the majority opinion, cloning is just another science.  It deserves the time and mind straining efforts given by today's scientists.  It doesn't deserve to be shut out or pushed aside because people are too paranoid to let the future take its course.
Cloning has been around for several years.  It has just recently hit the spotlight with Dr. Richard Seed's announcement that he will start a project to clone the first human in one and a half years (Krieger 1).  With all the media coverage, the general public's knowledge of cloning has shifted from nothing to forming biased opinions on a topic they really still don't have all the facts about.  In some cases, cloning is an extension of current and accepted practices that will very likely improve over time.  This includes reproductive therapy like in vitro fertilization.  The American Life League in the following states information on the advantages of cloning over in vitro fertilization:
"Consider couples going through IVF.  [There are] many reasons why they might choose to clone embryos either by blastomere separation, or by nuclear transfer.  One would be to obtain enough embryos to achieve pregnancy and offspring.  If a woman produced only one or two eggs or one or two embryos, it might be difficult for that couple to have a family.  Splitting the embryos or cloning them by nuclear transfer would enable them to overcome that problem.  Or they may want to do that to avoid having to go through a second IVF cycle which not only is very costly but is onerous for the woman involved, including hormonal stimulation and egg retrieval.  A third [reason] would be to have a back up supply of embryos from which tissue or organs could be obtained if a tragedy befell a first child.  Obviously in that scenario the cloned embryos could be transferred to the uterus at the same time leading to simultaneously born intended twins or they could be transferred at later points in time.  Now an important point, indeed a crucial point, about cloning as part of IVF is that such activities would appear to fall within the fundamental freedom of married couples, including infertile married couples to have biologically related offspring.  If the ability to clone an embryo and transfer it to the uterus is essential in determining whether that couple will reproduce, then cloning should receive the same legal respect and protection that other means of noncoital reproduction receive" (39).
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