Clones, Yes or No

Karime Balderas-Ortega

January 24th, 2014

Core One

Unique Means One!

What if Elvis could clone himself? Would he still have the same talent as the original Elvis or would he be different? What about John F. Kennedy, everyone loved him and would do anything to see him again but, would you clone him? The process of cloning isn’t complicated. It’s actually very simple  and could be used for good reasons. Is it worth it to possibly kill the original to give birth the clone though? In order to make a clone you have to remove an udder cell from sheep x and remove DNA from unfertilised egg. From there you fuse cells and it make an embryo with the donors DNA. The third step is to mix the embryo with a mixture of chemicals and implant it in the surrogate. After a full period of pregnancy, if everything goes well, the clone sheep is born.

The process seems painful for a human. Possibly killing the original to get DNA for the colne. The cloning process has yet to be tried on a human but it doesn’t seem possible for the time being. We don’t have the technology nor the patients for this kind of discoverment. For a human it would involve a pregnant women which could hurt the unborn child. The cloning process just seems painful and unethical for a  human.

Say that we happen to get all technology needed for human cloning and we get around 20 patients. Everything goes great until nine months later. The scientist know that for animals it works, but no one is sure about humans. At the end of those nine months when it comes time to deliver the clone, what if its not human? If scientist do happen to clone a human, they could end up creating the new monster.

Other than ethics and danger to the human race, what's so wrong about cloning? Cloning does have it positive, if someone dies unexpectedly then they have their clone. But maybe some people wouldn’t want to clone themselves. They’d think that one lifetime is enough, but how many people would be like this? If scientist took a survey asking whether people wanted to be cloned or not, at least one out of ten would say no.

When growing up parents often told their kids “Be yourself, even if it means you’re different from the rest.” When their kids were bullied the parents would call them “unique” and tell them they’re special. Now we could have the possibility to be unique twice. If the unethical and harmful cloning process does tend to happen, just remember what your parents told you.