All these types of cloning get a completely different shade when we talk about humans. The most radical and conservative enemies of any kinds of cloning predict degradation of human race if cloning is ever used for humans. There is another big group of scientists who see cloning as a wonderful way to overcome many diseases, oldness and even death. “Most fear about human cloning stems from ignorance” they state and their opinion also has right to be heard.
Moral dilemma is the first issue, which comes to our mind when we start talking about cloning. Most religions organization don’t support cloning as they estimate it like actions against Divine plan and like those, which contradict God’s will. Religious figures state that God’s opinion is expressed in the Bible and this opinion definitely sentences cloning. There are passages in the Bible where it’s mentioned that human wish to liken to God will be punished severely.
It’s evident that cloning is an attempt to encroach on God’s power. Exile of Adam and Eva from the Garden of Eden and Babylonian tower show the results of human disobedience. I think that religion is an integral part of our life and it’s not possible not to take the opinion of the religious authorities into account. To believe or not to believe in God is our personal choice but we should consider opinion of those who do and for whom cloning can be absolutely unacceptable.
Cloning is a comparatively new phenomenon and scientists had too little time to study all the possible consequences and influences of cloning on living organisms. The risks of genes mutation isn’t studied in all detail yet. There is a possibility that genes taken from grown up person used to create an embryo will cause too early aging of the organism. There are results of the experiments, which scientists try to hide and these results show frightening facts. There is a big number of deviations during the cloning experiments hold on animals and in a number of cases cloning produces mutated creatures with different deviations from norm. All the modern devices used for diagnostics can not give 100% guarantees that all abnormalities will be diagnosed before the birth. It’s a common known fact that famous Dolly the sheep died of severe lung disease and suffered from many other diseases. There is a big probability that all these diseases were the result of cloning. When it comes to human we must take into account longer period of human life and that it must take at least 20 years to be sure in the safety of human cloning.
Moral issue becomes one more serious reason against human cloning. It’s hard to imagine what both - the parent whose DNA was used to make a clone and child feel during their interaction. First of all parent will see younger copy of himself or herself and it’s hard to predict possible reaction. Another problem arises for child when he knows exactly the way he will look in the future, the way he behaves, makes choices, etc. Another important problem arises when we think about another parent, who will see in the clone a copy of his beloved spouse who will be 20 years younger, in addition. Technically, there will be even no incest if they fall in love with each other, as clone doesn’t have same blood as any of the parents. These are only some of possible problems which can arise when in comes to moral issue. We also should consider that cloning isn’t an integral part of our society yet and cloned child can suffer from the negative attitude of the surrounding, which can also create serious problems for adaptation.
Moral issue puts another difficult dilemma in front of those who call cloning safe and reliable method of reproduction. We still do not have any regulations in this field and in controversial issues like this there is always a threat that innovation gets into the wrong hands and create more harms than use. I think that situation with nuclear weapon is a very bright example when great discoveries and innovations turned to be a terrible weapon against the whole mankind and became the object of speculation and great power of chosen countries and even individuals. Cloning sounds wonderful when we think about the people it could help but if we imagine the harm it can cause if gets into the wrong hands we can doubt even possible use it can bring.