Impact of Human Cloning on Mankind

Over the years technology has evolved and paved roads for new and ever-inspiring innovations and challenges. Scientists have embraced some of these challenges and have succeeded for the most part with creating an environment that appeals to the many essentials and desires of human nature. Nevertheless, there are still many problems that arise from new scientific advances, both technilogically and morally. One indispensable debate that continues to weigh on many scholarly minds is the concept of human reproductive cloning. Moralists have constantly argued amongst themselves on whether or not human reproductive cloning should be permissible: whether or not it undermines and degrades human beings. There are many reasons, both rational and irrational, that explain the pros and cons of the issue at hand.

God gave us a power. The power to produce the organisms of our own kind by sexual reproduction but, Is cloning a part of our power to reproduce?

Consider also the example of identical twins - who are genetically identical -but often grow up with vastly different personalities. This can be attributed to: 1) unique souls, and 2) different life experiences. So too, the cloned being has a unique soul, and different life experiences. (The only difference between twins and a clone is that twins are the same age, while clones are separated by one generation, or to be more exact, the age of the cell-donor.). I think the clone might have a miserable life because psychologically and sociologically the person is not normal because the clone has no family and family love. You, do you want to be cloned without any known family and live in a miserable live because people criticize you because you’re fake and just a cloned

I am really opposed the use of cloning because it only does little advantages and a lot of possible disadvantages. We could imagine certain scenarios where cloning could help save a human life. For example, let's say you only have one kidney, and then discover that you are the only exact-match donor for your brother, who will die if he doesn't get a new kidney. You could clone yourself, and then use one of the new kidneys to save your brother's life.

For Scientists, Human cloning allows man to fashion his own essential nature and turn chance into choice. For cloning's advocates, this is an opportunity to remake mankind in an image of health, prosperity, and nobility; it is the ultimate expression of man's unlimited potential.

On the other hand, the potential for abuse is enormous. The most frightening idea is "growing" humans in cages, in order to "harvest" their bodies for spare parts. It is not far-fetched to imagine an unscrupulous multi-millionaire cloning himself in this manner -- in case he should ever need a kidney, heart, eye, bone marrow, etc. Another potential abuse is creating a class of mindless worker-clones. This is morally (and constitutionally) illegal - it's called "slavery." In some countries, cloning was banned and with punishment. Cloning could be used for some crime. President Bush can be cloned and order to have a war.

There is a movie that I watched about cloning entitled “The Sixth Day”. A man is being cloned for some useless experiment. The clone lived in a miserable life. For some in the movie, they clone themselves to keep their body alive and to keep their intelligence in the clone alive.

However, true immortality involves more than making a younger genetic copy of one. Are we nothing more than "flesh-and-bone computers," living to eat and propagate?

Scientists who envision medical breakthroughs using stem cells from human embryos are now moving on to human cloning -- breeding people for the purpose of harvesting their tissues and organs from their bodies, then disposing of them. And this procedure can break the rule of the law on human rights.

Cloning, even so-called therapeutic or experimental cloning, creates a new life without a father, and reduces a mother to the provider of an almost emptied egg. Nonetheless, it is a new human life and the determination to destroy it and limit its use to scientific research for therapeutic ends compound further the moral issues rather than protect mankind. As such, cloning embryonic human life under any circumstance crosses an ethical line, takes an irrevocable step, from which science can never turn back

Therapeutic cloning will in time allow scientists to create organs that are a perfect match for those in need of a transplant. The cloned organ would be based on the recipient’s genetic material and would not require the use of debilitating immunosuppressive therapies. There would also be no chance of rejection, which is fatal. Therapeutic cloning represents the ideal in organ transplantation, as it would provide an unlimited source of organs to anyone who needs them. The need for these organs is dire.

But creating a clone that is also a human with a life then it will just be a source of organs. Do you think the clone will also allow the removal of all the organs?

Katharina Wilson describes a misuse of cloning that she believes is going on today at one or more secret underground US government bases. She believes that scientists are cloning humans. After the experiments are over, the women are used as prostitutes. When the researchers and military personnel are finished with them, they are killed. She claims to have seen two women at a secret base who were clones of herself. (In an unrelated event, she recalls having experienced a sexually intimate contact with an alien being). Similar stories of clones associated with UFOs and Extra-terrestrial beings have materialized in the last few years.
The Cloning and some Genetic Engineering have their own advantages and disadvantages and these disadvantages can lead to the disruption and confusions in science because it will greatly affect taxonomy. It can create a new phylum and maybe a new kingdom but, is it really the will of God?

They envision a person cloning themselves so that the clone could be robbed for a needed organ. This argument is irrelevant; one has to separate possible abuses of a technology from the debate over whether a technology is moral. Quantum physics is not immoral because it has been used to design nuclear weapons.

So... is cloning good or bad? Judaism says there is nothing in the world that is inherently good or evil; there is only the potential for good and evil. Even something we typically associate as "bad" - for example, outrage - can be used for good - outrage against injustice. Similarly, even something we typically associate as "good" - for example, giving - can be used for bad - over-giving, or smothering. Talent, education and wisdom only have potential.

It is our prayer that the world will use its powers only for purposes which are good, holy, and truly "human."