The Risk and Challenges of Human Cloning
The Risk and Challenges of Human Cloning.
Now that a dog and a sheep has been cloned, can human cloning be that far behind? How is cloning important to future therapeutic medical advances, such as safe organ transplant? Human cloning research holds the answer to these questions. But still, the development of human cloning are slow and tough as it faces great challenges from the society that concern about moral and ethical abuse that the fallout of human cloning may produce. According to Elmer-Dewitt (1993)”A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order,seemed,if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon”. This citation shows how concern the author is about the development of human cloning. There are many challenges that present to curb the rapid development of human cloning. The challenges are, it is against certain religious perspective, threaten human ‘oneness’ and ethics, , against human moral perspective and restrictions imposed by the government.
The fundamental and core element of resistance against human cloning is the skeptical perspective of religious group around the world. To religious group, scientist attempts in human cloning are a blasphemous attempt by human to play god. These narrow-minded views on human cloning were based on the belief that human cloning development were solely researching on recreating another human being using unnatural method. According to Ranjbarian and Seyf( 2009)”Most of the world’s religious group took stances on the issue”. It means that the topic of human cloning is so sensitive that majority of religious group on the planet took interest on the subject. Contrary to popular belief, human cloning is not directly researching towards recreating other human being, those are Frankenstein fantasies. Early studies of human cloning were mostly about generating human stem cells and ways to provide safe organ transfer.
Now that a dog and a sheep has been cloned, can human cloning be that far behind? How is cloning important to future therapeutic medical advances, such as safe organ transplant? Human cloning research holds the answer to these questions. But still, the development of human cloning are slow and tough as it faces great challenges from the society that concern about moral and ethical abuse that the fallout of human cloning may produce. According to Elmer-Dewitt (1993)”A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order,seemed,if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon”. This citation shows how concern the author is about the development of human cloning. There are many challenges that present to curb the rapid development of human cloning. The challenges are, it is against certain religious perspective, threaten human ‘oneness’ and ethics, , against human moral perspective and restrictions imposed by the government.
The fundamental and core element of resistance against human cloning is the skeptical perspective of religious group around the world. To religious group, scientist attempts in human cloning are a blasphemous attempt by human to play god. These narrow-minded views on human cloning were based on the belief that human cloning development were solely researching on recreating another human being using unnatural method. According to Ranjbarian and Seyf( 2009)”Most of the world’s religious group took stances on the issue”. It means that the topic of human cloning is so sensitive that majority of religious group on the planet took interest on the subject. Contrary to popular belief, human cloning is not directly researching towards recreating other human being, those are Frankenstein fantasies. Early studies of human cloning were mostly about generating human stem cells and ways to provide safe organ transfer.
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