The advancements that science has made in cloning is incredible, but they are also dangerous. Allowing human cloning, either reproductive or therapeutic would be a very big mistake at this time and in the foreseeable future. There are far too many ethical and human rights issues that have to be considered. To put it simply, there are too many ways that human cloning can go wrong and too many ways that the science can be abused.
In therapeutic cloning an embryo is created through cloning and then destroyed. First, creating a human life and then destroying for scientific study or for its stem cells is highly unethical and cruel. An embryo is a human being that has a right to life, it is not a blood or tissue sample. If we begin to see clones as a thing to use and then discard, rather than a human life, it could lead to much
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Many people promote this type of cloning as way for infertile people to have a child that is biologically related to them. However, it is unlikely that the use of the science would stop at cloning children for infertile couples. Eventually people will begin cloning deceased loved ones. This temptation will probably be the greatest for parents that have lost a child. Given that parents are trying parents are expecting are expecting the clone to be a complete replica of their deceased child they will more than likely be greatly disappointed. A clone would be like an identical twin, physically identical, but having its own unique personality that might be completely different from the original child. The cloned child would feel this disappointment, even if the parents did their best to hide it. The clone might also feel that it is living in the shadow of the original child. It may come to believe that it is only loved because it looks like the child it was cloned from, rather than being loved as a unique individual. Both the parents and the clone would suffer severe emotional