Dr. Dixon, one of the prominent experts on the field of ethics of cloning is very harsh when expressing his opinion about the future of cloning adult people. He states that “The only reasons people want to clone are for selfish reasons. They are totally obsessed with their own right to have a clone or to clone dead relatives, without any regard to the welfare of the child, and this is the whole thrust of it.”
His radical position exaggerates the horrors and undermines possible use cloning can bring to the mankind but still we should consider the possibility that cloning can not become a dangerous weapon in the hands of separate individuals and will bring irreparable harm to the genetic fund of our the mankind. If we put aside moral issue and ethical concerns about the cloning we can see scientific arguments against it and these arguments are also important. It’s worth to underline one more time that there are too many unsuccessful efforts of cloning when embryos die or undergo irreparable genetic changes which make impossible their normal life and functioning. The process of evolution assumes natural selection and human interference within this process can break this fragile balance and finally stop the genetic improvements of the spices. Evolution or genetic improvements are possible only through natural reproduction as they assume the mixture of male and female genes, which become impossible during the process of cloning. For example, it took 227 attempts to get a famous Dolly the ship. These are the results of animals tests. Human organism, mind, psychics are much more complicated than those of animals and percentage of failure is respectably higher in the cases of human cloning.
Another scientific argument against cloning adduces those who consider genetic diversity to be one of the main way of evolutionary process. Cloning assumes using already existing types of DNA for new individuals, which will naturally stop creating new DNA patters as during the natural reproduction. It’s a common known fact that reduced DNA variations cause genetic mutations and defects. Cloning isn’t popular yet and it hasn’t become an integral part of our society yet and this problem sounds far-fetched and unreal but let’s imagine life on our planet in several centuries if using only the cloning instead of natural reproduction and we will understand the seriousness of the problem scientists predict today. From the practical reasons it’s easier of course to reproduce naturally but it’s hard to imagine the situation when people will know the possibility to create a new life without the difficulties caused by pregnancy, sufferings of childbirth, etc.
