Cloning can be defined as the process by which we can create identical copies of a developed organism, in a non sexual way. There are two important characteristics: First we start from a developed animal, because cloning responds to an interest to obtain of a determined animal that we are focused on, and only when it is an adult we can know its characteristics. On the other hand, cloning is supposed to be by an un sexual way. Sexual reproduction doesn’t let us obtain identical copies, because this type of reproduction due to its own nature generates diversity.
We live in an era of biotechnological advances, this discussions grab the attention of many specialists in biotech that discuss other matters like for example the ones related with a fair distribution of the limited medical resources. Lately, especially since the birth of Dolly, a discussion on human cloning has taken the interest of many.
The majority of the arguments that have been offered against human cloning can be classified in three main groups: Risks of physical damage to the clone, risk on psychological damage on the clone, social damage.
Who reject human cloning often maintain that this technique is morally un permit able because its security hasn’t been tested yet. They argue that the procedure used to create Dolly was successful only after 277 tryouts. Therefore, this technology could produce severe anomalies in the possible babies; critics of human cloning also argue that this practice can produce serious psychological damage in the born person through this technology, like possible loss of unique identity. Various authors have maintained that the human cloning may produce also social damages, which include the threat of familiar security and the ones that produce with the diminution of the human life respect, people think that human life can be replaceable
In first place, the new technology is an answer to the problem of infertility, as the same, the cloning is an important tool in the battle against genetic illnesses
Also, cloning gives one people the possibility to clon close parents, especially children who died. This practice can help people that have the difficult to have their own sons. The stronger argument that is agreed with cloning is that parents can bring to their sons a wonderful genetic inheritance. This is for parents with the risk of transmit genetic illnesses, like the fibrosis or the Huntington illness. They may decide to have babies by the way of cloning is for avoid this illnesses.
Finally, when we read about cloning technologies we got the impression that we live in a society where our most important problems are to solve infertility, a society where the genetic illnesses seems to be the principal cause of premature deaths, where the people’s individuality is threat constantly, and the medical resources are infinite. Probably a world with this characteristics a debate cloning may have sense. But in this overpopulated world, where many children have the necessity to have good families, a world that a thousand women may have their own sons, but they not have sufficient resources to offer a basic medical care and the necessary nutrition for their survivor, so, cloning is not a good exit and the effects that cloning may have in our society is destroy ourselves and damage our integrity like unique person and unrepeatable.
