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This 10 page paper explores some of the arguments for and against human cloning. Annotated bibliography lists 8 sources.
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solution that is presently used to control human cloning; and a suggested solution to restrict human cloning. Discussion Ethical repercussions of human cloning and restrictions on the practice: In discussing
human cloning, many of the sources also include how it is being restricted, usually by legislation, so the two topics are covered together here.
Many of the objections to human cloning seem to arise from a moral standpoint; many more come from religious groups. In both cases, the overwhelming emotion encountered seems to
be a sort of moral repugnance to the techniques described, as if man is trying to "play God" and modify processes that should be left to nature. Polls show that
the overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to human cloning, as is the U.S. government, the European Union and most other governmental bodies. There is a slight degree of hysteria
in the vehement objections of some of those who have debated the issue and indeed, it is emotional. It therefore demands that we take a step back and try to
approach it dispassionately. "Before we cry out with revulsion, [we] ... need to see what is behind the Current panic. Is it a real concern for human welfare or is
it the politics of reaction?" (Itzkoff 29). Itzkoff points out that those who are against human cloning because it is "tampering" with nature should remember that humans have been tampering
with nature "ever since we experimented with the fermenting of grapes, or plunged a stuck pig into a blazing fire" (29). Therefore, simply the idea of a new type of
experimentation should not be enough to cause this outcry; it is the subject of the experiments. Most of the debate among scientists centers on "the use of experimentally-created (cloned) and
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