Cloning: The Unpredictable and Negative Implications
In order to step outside the box of discovery, some scientific experiments can be considered playing God. For several people, the process of duplicating humans, even for the right reasons, can be viewed as stepping over the line of right and wrong that could lead to a serious end result. Although cloning could have a positive impact on medical advancements, there are negative implications as demonstrated through the ethical, social, and philosophical issues in both Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and society today.
Cloning occurs in two ways and is society’s other “option” for reproduction. According to Dennis Hollinger, “the clone (animal or human) is virtually a genetic duplicate of the donor of the nucleus” (Hollinger). It is supposed to be the exact replica of a person and its genes. It is stated that “there are essentially two forms of cloning in terms of intent: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Or as some prefer: cloning for biomedical research and cloning to produce children” (Hollinger). Research demonstrates that therapeutic cloning is used to gather garner stems cells to cure human diseases and improve the health in humans. However, reproductive cloning would serve many different purposes and ideas
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As stated, “dissenters contended that adult stem cells already offered ethical avenues to cures” (Cook). In this process, the clone embryo is destroyed as the patient needing the stem cell, overcomes the immune exclusion. Thus, the human is able to be cured. According to Hansen, “still others, including President Bush, say the research is grossly unethical because it destroys human embryos. They also fear that therapeutic cloning could lead to human cloning and even the creation of human clones as organ sources.” (Hansen). This topic generates fear that humans could emerge as clones and potentially become