Disadvantages Of Cloning

Despite our advances in medical technology, each year, thousands of people suffer and die due to organ failure. There are various causes to organ failure, either by physical damage, genetic mutation (exogenous factors: e.g. sunlight, radiation, smoking, etc..), and genetically inherited diseases. At this point in time, there are numerous of ways to solving organ failure, such as through the use of dialysis, pacemakers, drugs, etc… But in the end, the most sustainable way of potentially curing organ dysfunction is through organ transplants. Those who have passed away due to organ failure did not die because of the lack sufficient medical treatment, in fact the success rates of organ transplants operated around the world are all over 80%, so

Cloning might be able to remove the need for organ donations. But the process of cloning involves considerable costs. Say scientists were to obtain merely 100 human egg cells from ten donors for cloning purposes. $50,000 would already be needed to pay these women to buy egg cells from them. On top of that, there would be medical costs for procuring the egg, including treating these women with drugs to cease their production of ovaries, and to kickstart the production into overdrive so they could supply more eggs. If it costs over $1000 for obtaining each egg, then treating a patient could easily soar above $100,000. If just dealing with the egg cell, one component of the procedure, is already this expensive, the cost of the entire cloning process would go into the

Look at the success rates of cloning animals via the process of SCNT, the numbers range from 0.1-3%. For every 1000 tries, only 30 clones were successfully created. There are multiple reasons as to why this procedure has such high failure rates: sometimes the nucleus of the somatic cell is simply not compatible with the enucleated egg, the embryo consisting of the egg and the somatic cell nucleus may not be able to divide properly, the process of implanting the embryo into the surrogate mother might be unsuccessful, pregnancy consisting of the implanted embryo might fail. Not only would this make decrease the efficiency of cloning, it would also increase the cost of cloning as it requires more tries hence more resources if the process were to happen