Cloning
Nichole Hart
2/11/13
Med Law and Ethics
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human, a very controversial issue, the following tells about some controversies that go along with it. After graduation, the students of a private academy were told that they were clones made specifically to donate their body parts to human patients. Despite the fact that the students seem no different from other human beings their teenage happiness, feelings and relationships that they go through during their everyday lives will be taken away. The teens were confined in a hospital after they hit a certain age in order to have their organs taken out for transplants. They will have had several operations time after time before their bodies are unable to sustain at around the age of thirty. This is the story of the award-winning novel called, “Never Let Me Go,” which raises important questions including moral issues surrounding human cloning. In the actual world, since the very first cloned sheep Dolly was created in February 1997, there have been ethical and social arguments over the use of assisted reproductive technologies. Now that cloning of humans is becoming virtually possible, such debates are getting even more in-depth since there are many ethical issues that need to be weighed. Before cloning is to be done for human beings there are certain issues that need to be addressed. These include terms of their human rights, confusing identity issues with the originals, and technical and medical safety.
To treat cloned people as research tools is a human rights infringement to begin with. When the students in “Never Let Me Go” find out their fates as adult donors, they are devastated. They start to believe in the rumor that if a cloned couple is truly in love, and if they can prove to the scientists that they have “souls” at all, they can stop their roles as donors and live their own lives. However, the rumor turned out to be untrue. The students
2/11/13
Med Law and Ethics
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human, a very controversial issue, the following tells about some controversies that go along with it. After graduation, the students of a private academy were told that they were clones made specifically to donate their body parts to human patients. Despite the fact that the students seem no different from other human beings their teenage happiness, feelings and relationships that they go through during their everyday lives will be taken away. The teens were confined in a hospital after they hit a certain age in order to have their organs taken out for transplants. They will have had several operations time after time before their bodies are unable to sustain at around the age of thirty. This is the story of the award-winning novel called, “Never Let Me Go,” which raises important questions including moral issues surrounding human cloning. In the actual world, since the very first cloned sheep Dolly was created in February 1997, there have been ethical and social arguments over the use of assisted reproductive technologies. Now that cloning of humans is becoming virtually possible, such debates are getting even more in-depth since there are many ethical issues that need to be weighed. Before cloning is to be done for human beings there are certain issues that need to be addressed. These include terms of their human rights, confusing identity issues with the originals, and technical and medical safety.
To treat cloned people as research tools is a human rights infringement to begin with. When the students in “Never Let Me Go” find out their fates as adult donors, they are devastated. They start to believe in the rumor that if a cloned couple is truly in love, and if they can prove to the scientists that they have “souls” at all, they can stop their roles as donors and live their own lives. However, the rumor turned out to be untrue. The students
References: “Dolly the sheep clone dies young.” BBC News World Edition. 2003. “Never Let Me Go” Kazuo Ishiguro. 2005. www.wikipedia.com bootstrike.com/Genetics/Cloning/dolly_the_sheep.php