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1) to harvest stem cells for medical experiment. 2) for giving birth to baby. 3) 12 day old embryo for producing cells & tissues is morally acceptable.
Causes for abortion for medical causes aresuggested by surgeon. Personal cloning techniques are opposed because of safety, opposition that is based on the fact that cloning techniques are still unsafe & could pose a risk of producing malformed baby. Even though the clone will have the exact same genetic make up as the original he may develop differently because the social & environmental context within which his life unfold will not be the same as donor.
Clonning is an act of production & not creation using new biotechnologies a being is produced with the same degree of engineering. If we think of engineering, quality control & predictable out comes in mind is same about cloning a human being. Clonning child is not creation but engineered reproduction. Suggestions
Using cloning technology to create humans is in principle unethical are entirely without foundation 3 objections to clonning creation. 1) It is claimed to be unsafe 2) It is claimed to be harmful to resulting child... 3) It is claimed that duplicating a given gensome is some how bad thing.
Safety is not powerful argument. Procreation as even giving birth in normal way is not safe procedure. Degree of safety is unacceptable relative to human gains. Birth of our pregnancy is gift bestowed by God or beneficient nature. Where we judge the circumstances of a future person to be less than ideal but not so bad as to deprive that individual of a worthwhile existence then we lack the moral justification to impose our ideals on others when there is absolutely no empirical evidence of harm & simply feeling that there could be such harms we would have no children, if we were very poor children should be brought up free from poverty & want.
If 14 year old girl prospective mother chooses to have child. Because she is young she is giving bad start to child's life. Or a woman chooses to have a child through cloning because she chooses to conceive in this way she gives the child bad start. In both cases it is better for these children that they live than not live at all.
Is it wrong or even bad to duplicate a human gensome? Popular belief of hysteria of cloning human reproductive cloning is a process with which humanity has had vast encouraging experience. Identical twins are nature's clons they have been part of human experience 3/ 1000 births involve identical twins. Where is the evidence that they are
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