The Pros And Cons Of Reproductive Human Cloning

Antinori also argues that the clone will not be a 100% exact copy of the father, and thus the uniqueness is still somewhat conserved. As the egg used to create the clone is from the mother, some of the DNA of the clone will be from the mother. This is because the mitochondria organelles comes from the egg cell when an embryo is forming. This cloned embryo will receive some of the DNA from the mitochondria from the mother’s egg cell. Though this may be true, a question of identity is raised; if the clone has a man’s DNA, and the mitochondrial DNA from the mother, and then possibly was born from the womb of a surrogate mother, whose offspring is the clone really? The claim that the clone will not be a 100% copy of the DNA donor is questionable, as Dr Paul Atkinson, general manager of science from AgResearch 2002, states “These minor differences are "epigenetic", meaning they will not be passed on to the clones' offspring.”[18], that is assuming if clones can produce offspring. As Antinori’s medical claims and
The ethical issues that are raised from to this issue have not been successfully debated about, and is still in the grey, and thus human cloning could produce more problems than solutions among between the opposing members of NZers. Ethical issues such as ‘are clones entitled to human rights’, what is the clones’ identity crisis, is the clone an individual or an extension of the copied human, etc raises far too many sub-branching questions, most of which cannot be answered without making implications on other controversial issues, such as abortion, contraceptives, murder, etc. For the sake of our current social stability, reproductive clones should not be introduced into our world, which threatens the moral values, dignity and pride that our laws, society, and as individual humans, stand firmly