Cloning- Pros and Cons

Pros:
• Cloning organs allow organ transplant at any time (no need to find donors;
• Cloning specific organy or tissues allow us study their function without experiment on a live person;
• Techniques of cloning can be applied other areas of biological areas;
• Scientists hope that on day therapeutic cloning can be used to generate tissues and organs for transplants.
• Many challenges must be overcome before “cloned organ” transplants became reality.
• The cloning is a scientific option worth exploring;



Cons:

• Cloning could be go wrong – danger of mutations;
• Cloning makes usall less special;
• Compromise our individuality;
• Cloning is “playing God”;
• Mass produced;
• Reproductive cloning also could be used to populate endangered animals or animals that difficult to breed;
• Cloning extinct animals presents in different habitats;
• Reproductive cloning is expensive and highly inefficient;
• Religion problem;
• The cloning should be in any civil society;
• Each other so well that some times they finish each other;
• Cloning violated the right to be unic;
• We can´t clone a soul;

written by: Ana Serrano

posted by: Isabel Brito da Luz