Q2, Week 4 Critical Reading Passage - Should Human Cloning Be Allowed

Should human cloning be allowed?

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically equates to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have evaluated the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different context, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab. Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this context, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they equate that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.




My Response to it

i do not think human cloning should be allowed because the earth would become over-populated even more so anybody can have a baby when ever they want as technology maybe so far advance to possibly having artificial woumbs and the lady wouldnt need to have a baby. there are many different factors to human cloning. but on the other hand it could be good to have human cloning if a family member past away then you could recreate them but the personalitys would be the complete opposite due to it being a clone and not an exact replica.