Human Cloning

Cepillo, Maria Basilisa Concepcion A.                                                August 30, 2016

2015-06655                                                                        CAS B7

Mirror

        “The fact that human beings can be cloned is a scientific triumph, but it is also an ethical earthquake.”---Smith on his article about human cloning. It is indeed brilliant and unbelievable that human cloning is just a mile away from researchers and scientists who were able to clone living things using cells. Ethical arguments about the process rapidly emerged, opposing the continuation of the research on human cloning. Significant individuals, the church, government, and etc. are having disputes on retaining the research or banning it. After reading the article, digesting and analyzing the arguments, I agree on the prominence of the rapid development and discovery on how the human cloning process work but I disagree on the production of human clones because it promotes obliviousness on the meaning of life and objectification of women.

        First of all, the cloning of Dolly the sheep was a massive development by science that pioneered the cloning of other mammals and the desire for knowledge about human cloning. Cloning is a meticulous process since microscopic objects are largely involved. The cell itself is complicated enough especially the chromosomes that contain the DNA which is the most complex topic in the process. The fact that scientists are still not able to clone monkeys using the process that cloned Dolly and that they are still not able to figure it out proves that humans, who share many properties with monkeys, are too complicated for today’s technology. Still, new discoveries on cloning never fail to amaze people who are science enthusiasts. Although human cloning is truly magnificent, I do not agree on the production of human beings because it teaches people to value human life less. Human life can be compared to production of materials needed and disposal of it after use, if the production is successful, clones might be treated poorly due to its “none value”. Production of clones may be treated as production of plain materials that have purposes but can be disposed any time. Furthermore, a process for human cloning, the collection of egg cells on women, not only has side effects on the supplier but increases the objectification of the female biological functions. Women has long been objectified since ages and being classified as how you produce a primary egg for cloning is not helping it. Females who produce “quality” eggs for cloning may be exploited and used for the research.