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This 7 page paper discusses the background of human cloning and why it is an ethical issue, as well as suggesting different approaches to human cloning. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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This paper considers this reaction, the background of human cloning, and why it is an ethical issue. Discussion In his book Whos Afraid of Human Cloning?, Gregory Pence mentions the
extreme reaction that the term "human cloning" provokes in otherwise reasonable people. It is his contention that the emotional revulsion most people feel about the process has led to a
one-sided presentation of the issue, that of the anti-cloning position. There has been no dialogue or discussion in which both pro and anti-cloning positions are investigated; instead, Pence argues, it
seems as though a sort of tacit agreement has been reached in which human cloning has been universally accepted as a bad thing that should be banned immediately (1998). This
shuts down discussion completely and scientists and others who want to examine the issue further have an uphill battle. Background: There are a number of different types of cloning: "molecular
cloning, cellular cloning, embryo twinning, and nuclear somatic transfer (NST)" (Pence, 1998, p. 11). NST is the type of cloning that produced Dolly the sheep and is the one that
people immediately think of when they hear the term "human cloning" (Pence, 1998). In the process of molecular cloning, "strings of DNA containing genes are duplicated in a host bacterium"
(Pence, 1998, p. 11). Cellular cloning refers to a process in which "copies of a cell are made, resulting gin what is called a cell line, a very repeatable procedure
where identical copies of the original cell can be grown indefinitely" (Pence, 1998, p. 11). Embryo twinning is a process in which an embryo "that has already been formed sexually"
is split in half; the halves are identical (Pence, 1998, p. 11). In theory, embryo twinning could continue indefinitely, by in reality, there is a limit to the number of
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