HistoryHistory

ProcessProcess

Religious issuesReligious issues

Experiments conductedExperiments conducted

Federal and governmental regulationsFederal and governmental regulations

Medical issuesMedical issues

World viewWorld view

Pros and ConsPros and Cons

History of Cloning:

1952

The world's first ever successful animal cloning experiment.

Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King successfully

cloned tadpoles by nuclear transfer.

1996

The world's first ever cloned mammal.

Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King successfully

cloned tadpoles by nuclear transfer.

2004

The world's first ever clonedhuman embryo.

South Korean scientists create several cloned human embryos which they only

allowed to develop for a short while – just long enough to extract embryonic stem

cells which could be used in the treatment of disease. .

1999 Dec. 2002

Scientists secretly placeda human cloned embryointo a pig. The cell onlylived to be 32 days old.

Experiments conducted: Failed Experiments

A company called Clonaidannounced that they

successfully cloned thefirst human. Experts say

it is impossible for thecompany to clone a human

due to inadequatetechnology.

Human cloning experiments in 2009

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

Fertility expert: 'I can clone a human being'

Panayiotis Zavos, a fertility doctor, claimed he has cloned 14 human embryos and implanted 11of them into four women. The experiment was conducted in a secret laboratory most likely in the Middle East. He personally owns fertility clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus. None of the women became pregnant but the doctor indicated that this was just the “first chapter” for his ongoing attempts to produce a cloned baby from parent’s skin cells.

Future of Human Cloning

No one truly knows the future of human cloning, but many believemodels will be cloned to make designer babies.

It is highly probable that a cloned human being lives among us now.You might read breaking headlines about cloning but most of those are

A few years behind. Some say they just discovered a new processto human cloning in 2010, but in reality it was completed in 2005.

In 2001, there was such a stir in the human cloning idea that hundredsof scientist did their work with out anyone knowing. Thousands of dollars,

eggs, adult cells ect.have been donated to human cloning research.

As citizens of the world we can not ignore scientific research, but instead regulate it.

“Either we control gene technology today, or technology will redesign usby tomorrow.”

Process of Cloning:

Donor

egg

Remove nucleus

Remove cells from

person to be cloned

Human egg donor

Surrogate mother with cloned baby

Implant embryo

into surrogat

e mother

Embryo

Cell

Egg fused

with cell Fuse cell and

enucleated egg with

electricity

"Creating human life is God's job, and His alone"

"Human cloning is

going too fa

r and try

ing to ta

ke God's place in

our creatio

n."

"Only God has the power to create a living creature, and for man to 'create' life is blasphemous."

"As a Christian, I feel that cloning is morally wrong. The only person who should grant a life is God."

"Creating human life is GOD's job, and His alone!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"We are not the creator, only the creation."

"God is the Creator of all life. Period."

"The breath of life is given to us by God - not by scientists splicing genes in a lab."

Religious issues

“Playing God”

Some people believe that cloning is similar to playing God.

They believe that God should be the creator of all living and natural things.

It is believed that a human has the right for the full human development in a natural environment and that the human embryo

should be left alone after the 14th day of fertilization.

“Reverence for life”

Some religious people believe that if you clone a human being it has no soul.

People believe human cloning takes away from an

Individual being unique and stressesPsychological and social development

“Not Unique”

“No Soul”

Medical issues

•Possible miscarriage or still birth•Deformities•Unforeseen deaths in later life of the clone•Health risks from mutated genes•Developmental delays•Lung problems•Heart defects•Neurological disorders•Unstable immune system

Some State Cloning Laws

Maryland

Iowa

Connecticut California

ArkansasArizona

North Dakota

MissouriMichigan

South Dakota

Bans the use of public

monies for reproductive

or therapeutic

cloning.

Prohibits reproductive

and therapeutic

cloning

Prohibits reproductive cloning but

permits cloning for research.

Prohibits reproductive

and therapeutic

cloning

Prohibits any type of cloning.

Prohibits reproductive cloning but

permits cloning for research.

Prohibits any type of cloning.

Prohibits state funds to be used

for cloning on embryos for newborns

Prohibits any type of cloning.

Prohibits any type of cloning.

Pros and Cons

Pros Cons

•Cloned body parts can serve as backup systems for humans•Solution to infertility•Combat genetic diseases•Replicate animals for research purposes•Enable alterations of plants & animals.•Produce people with desirable traits

•Weaken diversity & ability of adaptation•Production of undesirable traits•Technical & economic barriers: cost effective? Reach the common man?•Invites malpractices into society•Human & animals rights at stake•Ethical & moral principles•Undermining human life•Devalue mankind•Human’s acting as God

Some other World views

CanadaProhibits: any type of human cloningThat would duplicate a human being

Costa RicaProhibits: : “Any manipulation or alteration of an

embryo’s genetic code is prohibited, as is any kind of experimentation with embryos.”

PanamaProhibits: financing, promotion, donating,

experimentsresearch of any kind of cloning.

Prohibits:: “experiments concerning cloning of human

cells in order to generate human beings .” Argentina

Prohibits: Placing a human embryo into a woman (other then for fertilization).

United Kingdom

Works cited:

Leon Kass and James Q. Wilson, 1998. The Ethics of Human Cloning. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute

Author Unknown. 2003. The Future of Human Cloning: Ethics-Progress-Politics. http://www.globalchange.com/clonech.htm

NCSL, West Group. January 2008. National Conference of State Legislatures: State Human Cloning Laws. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/Genetics/rt-shcl.htm

Oak, Manali. 8/26/2008. Pros and Cons of Cloning from Buzzle.com. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-cloning.html

Roario Isasi, JD, MPH. 2005. Database of Global Policies on Human and Germ-line Engineering. http://www.glphr.org/genetic/genetic.htm

Works cited Continued:

Connor, Steve: Science Editor. 22 April 2009. Fertility expert: 'I can clone a human being'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fertility-expert-i-can-clone-a-human-being-1672095.html

Five students of Indian Hill Elementary. No date given. Cloning Experiments.http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01880/failed_experiments.htm