20 Years After Dolly The Sheep Led The Way-Where Is Cloning Now By Karen Wentraub Critical Analysis

“20 Years after Dolly the Sheep Led the Way-Where Is Cloning Now?” by Karen Weintraub talks about the technology advances in cloning and how they can be used today. Weintraub discusses the benefits and dangers to cloning. Weintraub provides quotes from significant people throughout the article, in order to shed light on topic within cloning. She also provides information and opinions about each topic. Because of these factors Weintraub appears to be a credible unbiased author, that is capable of providing enough facts for the audience to form their own opinion.
If an audience is going to trust a person’s opinion or point of view. They are going to want evidence, that supports a person claim. Weintraub does not clearly state her claim
Weintraub states the biggest question, when discussing cloning; Is it possible to clone a human? Instead of providing the audience with her own opinion. Weintraub choose to state and quote the opinion of Ian Wilmut. Who is one of the scientist that is responsible for the birth of Dolly, the cloned sheep. Although it was once hoped by many to soon be able clone humans, Wilmut doesn’t recommend it. He deems it may be possible but, “Just because it may work in the sense of producing offspring doesn’t mean to say we should do it.” He also believed it would lead to abnormalities within offsprings, as well as losses of offsprings. Weintraub does not clearly state her opinion on weather or not scientist should clone humans. This adds to her credibility because she provides information on a topic and the opinion of someone that can be viewed as an expert on cloning, due to his experience with it
People often say that certain animals will cease to exist as the decades continue. Although quite fascinating this wouldn’t work for extinct species. In order to make a clone you have to acquire an intact nucleus and fuse adult and egg cells together. Since this isn't available for extinct animals, most likely only those in endangered can be repopulated. This can allow some members of Weintraub’s audience to feel optimistic about technologies advances in cloning. Animal lovers will definitely gain satisfaction of never adding another animal to the extinct species list. Weintraub uses the audience emotions to create a connection between them a cloning. If cloning appears to be beneficial instead of harmful, people would be more likely to advocate for it instead of rallying against