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This essay is based on a project for my senior year of school in which we had to research a topic. I choose the effects of human cloning. Within this essay I outline the types of cloning and the effects it will have on the world in the future. This essay is mainly in support of human cloning as well as any type of cloning. [2,481 words]
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THE AUTHOR
I am a senior at Vance High School in Charlotte, NC. I wrote this essay because our senior year entails the research efforts on a specific topic in which we follow throughout the year. In order to graduate we have to write a research paper along with creating a product based on my research and sharing it with the community. [April 2002]
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"I enjoyed reading this but I found the logic of the piece very confused. Just to cite a few instances, you seem to equate having yourself cloned with living forever. This is completely false: somebody who had the same genetic code as me living on after my death would be a completely different case to ME "living" after my death, as in the religious notion of an afterlife. If I was survived by my identical twin that would be the same as my clone surviving me, but sadly I would still be DEAD! In fact the whole topic of identical twins (genuine clones of one another) was left out of your article. Although it is true that as we develop in the womb each body cell is a clone of the first one, the cells rapidly differentiate out to form the various bodily organs and become completely different to one another in what they do. The notion of cloning a complete human being is quite different to this. You also glossed over two very important technical points: 1. to get one viable foetus with animals something like 250 - 300 implantations are required. Are human hosts going to accept that small a success rate? 2. There is considerable evidence that cloned animals are disease-prone and have amuch shorter lifespans than normal members of their species. The technique would need to be a lot better before it would be ethical to apply it to people. The likely failures and partial failures are a large part of what makes it ethically unacceptable. As for using it to serve the needs of infertile couples, why not ordinary IVF or even adoption? Why should they want clones of themselves? I am basically pro-science (although I don't agree that the world would have come to an end without it!) and even pro-cloning for sound medical reasons, but you seem to want it at any cost and for very questionable motives." -- David Gardiner, London, England.
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