Human Cloning

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Human Cloning

We are making technological and medicinal advances very rapidly in today’s society. We have found cures for diseases that we never thought could possibly be cured. One of the most controversial issues of recent day is the issue of human cloning. Although it is highly disputed, and knowing human cloning will raise lot of challenging questions about human liberty, dignity and identity, we have to look at the positive side. Cloning can be used to save endangered species, giving children to infertile couples, therapeutic cloning and personal purposes.

The first major point in favor of human cloning is that patients suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Kidney disease can receive organ transplant through the help of stem cells, or newly cloned organs on other animals or humans. For example, treatments of cancer like leukemia could be revolutionized. Treatment of leukemia involves in transfer of the patient’s bone marrow through chemotherapy. The organ transplants and donations are not so efficient at this point in time. According to http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Cancer-Statistics.html in 2000, approximately 43,400 patients died due to the lack of donated bone marrow. According to the Human Cloning Foundation, doctors will be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their health heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the hearth that have been damaged. According to, http://www.ritecode.com/aerobicgardening/topkill.html in United Sates heart disease was the number one cause of death in 1999, taking almost 725,000 lives. Cloning could undoubtedly remove all of these factors, by just using a single health cells to form an essential organ that can save a human life. Human Cloning, once perfected, could lead to the cloning of other things. One should think about the possibilities in the other countries like Somalia, where a whole village could be made health and immune to diseases.

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