Legalizing Human Cloning

Legalizing Human Cloning
Laura Johnson
Philosophy 103
May 10, 2010

Part I: Thesis

We are in a technological and medically advanced age to where anything is possible.   Technology and medical advances combined us as a people have the ability to gain from each opportunity that we invent.   For example, we now have the capability at our fingertips to connect with friends and family through the World Wide Web, this in which is given to us by way of technological advances.   Through medical advances, we can now repair hearts through surgery, replace organs from donors who have gone on to the next life.   And with this comes a new medical rise of transplanting organs with one that can be harvested from a clone.   Medically speaking; (MedicineNet.com) to clone a person for the creation of a person. (¶ 1) As technology and medical advances grow, so does the need for finances to ensure that growth.   We will all agree to spend our well earned cash to ensure that technology advances and remains legal, but would we be willing to fund the advancement of cloning in order legalize this field of medicine?
It is (Duddington, 2000) speculated that within the next ten to fifteen years human cloning will become possible. (¶ 1) When in fact human cloning is possible due to the famous sheep named Dolly in 1997.   Here in the united states according to our National Conference of State Legislatures (2008) fifteen out fifty states have taken action in prohibiting human cloning; which are “Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Virginia.” (¶ 1) I stand firm behind these fifteen states that and would be proud to state that I believe all fifty should have laws against human cloning.
If we are to legalize human cloning, there would be no passing on to the next life; for those who have a strong emphasis on an afterlife; or just plain deaths.   Therefore, with... [continues]

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