The ethics of human cloning are important to current and future research scientists, curious citizens of
any country and possibly any ocials within any country. For scientists, many would think that human
cloning should push through because of the benefits that will come with it. For some people, religion
plays a factor in their stance about human cloning. Many people religious people argue that it is just
plain wrong to use stem cells to create an organ or perhaps a new body. Government ocials take either
side of this debate because of religious values and possible political gains. As for me, this is important
because stem cell plays a big role in cloning and the usage of stem cells is debated widely. I also think
that human cloning should be utilized if it is possible but there is the question if some researchers or
scientists will abuse the process. Many major news outlets have articles that condemn the usage of
human cloning for various purposes. The central debate issue is really just the idea of cloning humans.
People are looking at this now because some wonder if cloning poses a threat to human life and others
wonder if cloning could further enhance human life.
People new to this information should read an article about the cloned sheep Dolly and possibly google
search “ethics of human cloning” to gain knowledge about the pros and cons of this topic. A quick twi*er
search shows a variety of opinions on cloning. Cloning started o, with the cloning of tadpoles by nuclear
transplantation in the 1960s. It was not really payed a*ention to until Dolly the sheep was created. In
1996, Ian Wilmut and his colleagues successfully cloned an animal by somatic cell nuclear transfer. This
incident sparked an interest of possible human cloning.
With the possibility of cloning happening, there are di,erent opinions of the ma*er. The pro side of
human cloning mainly states that many benefits like aging reversal, heart a*ack reversals, infertility and
many other highly debated issues will be possible to change. However more research is needed to
actually say that human cloning is possible. The American Medical Association (AMA) write that
“[scientists need to] understand the abnormalities” from the results of cloning. In 2001, The U.S. House
of Representatives voted to federally ban human cloning and established penalties if cloning does occur.
The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 states “human cloning means human asexual reproductions,
accomplished by introducing nuclear material from one or more human somatic cells into a fertilized or
unfertilized oocyte…to produce a living organism that is genetically virtually identical to an existing or