Cloning And The Human Family: Theology After Dolly Summary

Imagine a world where there are clones who look exactly like a specific person. A world with many famous figures of the past, such as George Washington, Mother Teresa, and so many more. With cloning, that world may be possible, concluded “Cloning and the Human Family: Theology After Dolly” by Allen Verhey. A clone is a genetic copy of an individual. Scientifically, animals and other species can be cloned by “transferring DNA from a single cell of an animal into an egg cell and creating a relatively exact copy of that animal,” according to “Genetic Defects Found in Cloned Animals” by Steve Mitchell (Mitchell). It is stated in “Cloning and the Human Family: Theology After Dolly” by Allen Verhey that the society may be able to “clone a sick
It is stated in the article “What is the Future of Animal Biotechnology?” by Alison L. Van Eenennaam that the “cloning procedure is currently inefficient, with only 1% to 3% of the nucleated egg cells developing into live offsprings” (Van Eenennaam). This statistic helps the audience infer that the cloning procedure must be very expensive. With such a low percentage of success, the audience can also infer that many embryos may’ve been wasted each time. In additional example is stated in “Dolly’s Death Resurrects Debate on Cloning Ethics” by Rosie Mestel: “to get Dolly, it took 277 tries” (Mestel). This statistic helps prove that the inference was correct. A lot of embryos were wasted each time the cloning procedure was done. At least 277 embryos were made and 276 embryos were killed. This fact may seem important to some people because they may feel as if 276 lives were sacrificed in order to clone 1 sheep, and this does express the inefficiency of
For instance, in the article “Should Human Cloning Be Banned?” by Albert Moraczewki and Arlene Judith Klotzko, it is claimed that “every human embryo is priceless because it is already a human being... the cloning of human beings would lead to confusion of personal identity and worth” (Klotzko and Moraczewki). In the future, if cloning gets easier, the worth of humans might decrease. It is similar to mass production. Every new object’s price is very high to begin with but dramatically decreases when it is mass produced in a factory. If human clones are also mass produced, their value will decrease, that is what worried many people. Moreover, Albert Moraczewki and Arlene Judith Klotzko add that “the result is that each child born has a unique set of genes, which is a reflection of the child’s unique soul” (Klotzko and Moraczewki). Individualism is valued by many in the United States of America. According to this claim, the “unique set of genes” represents an individual (Klotzko and Moraczewki). In the cloning process, the “unique set of genes” is copied, meaning an individual is copied, stripping the individualism from the individual. Basically, cloning may seem like a process in which someone loses their individuality, devaluing the importance of each human