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Against: Ethical Cloning Human Cloning Religious Secular

Opponents of cloning raise several concerns: (1) the technology is not yet safe and could be prone to abuse through creating clones as slaves or harvesting organs, (2) cloned individuals may face difficulties integrating with families and society, and (3) cloning could rob individuals of unique characteristics and lead to unknown health effects like premature aging or unpredicted allergic reactions.

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Against: Ethical Cloning Human Cloning Religious Secular

Opponents of cloning raise several concerns: (1) the technology is not yet safe and could be prone to abuse through creating clones as slaves or harvesting organs, (2) cloned individuals may face difficulties integrating with families and society, and (3) cloning could rob individuals of unique characteristics and lead to unknown health effects like premature aging or unpredicted allergic reactions.

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AGAINST

Opponents of cloning have concerns that technology is not


yet developed enough to be safe, and that it could be prone
to abuse, either in the form of clones raised as slaves, or
leading to the generation of humans from whom organs and
tissues would be harvested. Opponents have also raised
concerns about how cloned individuals could integrate with
families and with society at large.
 the ethics of cloning refers to a variety of ethical positions regarding
the practice and possibilities of cloning, especially human cloning.
While many of these views are religious in origin, some of the
questions raised by cloning are faced by secular perspectives as well.
Perspectives on human cloning are theoretical, as human therapeutic
and reproductive cloning are not commercially used; animals are
currently cloned in laboratories and in livestock production.

Dolly was cloned by Keith Campbell, Ian Wilmut and colleagues at


the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dolly, the sheep, has already shown signs of premature ageing.
During the life-time several mutations in the DNA sequence
occur along with epigenetic changes. They could be adaptive,
triggered by environmental changes. 
the question is whether it would be ethically and socially acceptable
including the potential concerns that might be associated with cloning
humans. Compared to a natural embryo, which has a genome resulting
from the mixture of six sources, a cloned genome would essentially have
a single source. This would certainly rob off the unique characteristics a
natural child possesses.

Genetic engineering could also create unknown side effects or


outcomes. Certain changes in a plant or animal could cause
unpredicted allergic reactions in some people which, in its original
form, did not occur. Other changes could result into the toxicity of an
organism to humans or other organisms.

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