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CloningCloningFor and againstFor and against

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For CloningFor Cloning

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Banning things is a bad ideaBanning things is a bad idea

• There’s no need to argue in favour of cloning. Unless the case against cloning is conclusive, cloning shouldn’t be banned.

• However, arguments that don’t conclusively show cloning should be banned may be helpful in suggesting restrictions and rules that enable cloning to be done in an ethical and acceptable way.

• It’s entirely sensible to have a rigorous debate on the issue.

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It doesn’t hurt anyoneIt doesn’t hurt anyone• It doesn’t hurt the person being

cloned. • If it would harm them they wouldn’t

give their permission. • If it was done without their

permission they would have the same remedies as if they’d been operated on without their permission.

• It doesn’t hurt the baby. • Why should he or she feel any

different from a baby created in the conventional way?

• And there is no evidence that children born using other forms of assisted reproduction are less valued than those born through natural conception.

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Cloning simply extends humanity’s Cloning simply extends humanity’s range of choicesrange of choices

• Why should we restrict humankinds freedom to make themselves better and to grow up as species

• The Nazi eugenics programme was dreadful and was a state-run scheme to create the perfect society. Modern eugenics is not a government scheme and aims only to create the perfect child.

• Once you let eugenics in through the back door, it becomes available to governments with bad intentions.

• Cloning will allow us to avoid the chance results of ordinary reproduction and choose what our children are like.

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It would help infertile people or It would help infertile people or those who’ve lost a childthose who’ve lost a child

• Imagine parents who lose a child and can’t have a baby in the natural way because of age or sickness. It would surely be cruel to ban a technology that could allow them to have “their child back.”

• Wouldn’t it be cruel to ban a technique that might enable an infertile couple to have a baby? Or to prevent a child whose parents had become infertile from having brothers and sisters.

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Reproductive RightsReproductive Rights• Human cloning would allow

celibate people or homosexuals to have a biologically related child to cherish and love without having to have sex. It is wrong to deprive them of this right.

• In what sense is having children a basic human right?

• If having children is a basic human right, it doesn’t follow that having children by cloning is a basic right and they should all take a whack at it.

• And if it was a right wouldn’t the state be obliged to provide us with a partner if we couldn’t find someone to have a child with.

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It would let gay or celibate people It would let gay or celibate people have biological childrenhave biological children

• Human cloning provides a way for those who do not wish to have procreative sexual intercourse to have biological children.

• This argument is unlikely to be put forward by celibate people, since they have taken the decision not to have children.

• However it may be put forward by all the gay couples, it provides a way for them to have children that are biologically theirs.

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It is a parental dutyIt is a parental duty

• If by cloning designer babies we could ensure our children are healthier, happier, more intelligent, surely we have a duty to do it.

• If we don’t do the best for our children, maybe they could sue us for not using cloning.

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Children’s rightsChildren’s rights

• Cloning is a way of making sure that children can fulfil the right to a good genetic heritage.

• If we could use cloning to ensure that our children were genetically sound it would breach their human rights not to do it.

• We don’t usually think that having sound genetics is a basic human right.

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Cloning WILL happenCloning WILL happen

• Some people say that human clones will inevitably be created.

• Disapproving of cloning or passing laws against it will turn clones into a class of outcasts that people will shun or who will live in fear of the law.

• So as clones will certainly be created banning them will produce unfair discrimination against them.

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Religious freedomReligious freedom• The Raelian religion has cloning

as a significant part of it believes. So banning human cloning would restrict freedom of religion.

• The Raelians claim that life on earth was created scientifically through DNA and genetic engineering by a human ET race. The name of this race is Elohim, a name that is found in the Hebrew bible and mistranslated by the word “God.”

• The Raelian movement also claims that Jesus was resurrected through and advanced cloning technique performed by the Elohim.

• Raelians believe that today's cloning technology is the first step in the quest for eternal life.

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CloningCloning

Against CloningAgainst Cloning

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It is a Horrible IdeaIt is a Horrible Idea

• Our gut feeling tell us that human cloning is wrong.

• Sometimes our feelings of horror communicate real ethical truths.

• The horror we feel at human cloning reflects our inner certainty that is so something terribly wrong.

• Recent research has shown that human beings may rely on emotion as much as reason as part of our ethnical thinking.

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Against human cloningAgainst human cloning

• Cloning may have bad results for the embryo and carries a high risk of abnormality in the resulting child.

• Cloned animals show a high rate of abnormality or disability per live birth

• Cloning can put cell donor and the birth mother at risk.

• In one us study using cows (the cow) four of the twelve surrogate mothers died from pregnancy complications and deformities and hairy legs

• Cloning has a high failure rate

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Its not right!Its not right!

• Its just involves killing embryos

• Its too risky• Its playing God• It’s a charter for

eugenics• Its doesn’t respect

human dignity (religious and secular arguments).

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We should not play GodWe should not play God

• There are also many people who do not want scientific development to occur in terms of biological research and development.

• These people are sometimes the more religious types in modern day society.

• They believe that we should never “play god”. Doing so, according to them, is an act against God and ourselves.