Human Cloning a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Human cloning is a controversial issue that has been in heated debate among government, scientists, and society for the past few years. As technology progresses, human cloning has become a realistic possibility. While genetic cloning may have many rewards such as disease and cancer research, and the ability of sterile couples to have their own children, it is ultimately immoral. ... While select individuals feel that human cloning and its research should be pursued, the majority of society stands on its morals and objects to it through personal beliefs, family values, religion, and fear of its negative impacts upon society. Dominating our family values is a sense of morals that make the idea of human cloning wrong. Cloning human beings will have a negative impact on familial relations and, in turn, those of society as a whole. ... Human cloning contradicts these feelings and could possibly change our idea of family and self identity. Because cloning is asexual reproduction, the emotional, psychological, and social aspects surrounding normal reproduction are lost. ... The process of evolution, which occurs due to the natural selection of genes, would be impaired due to human cloning. ... If everyone had the same genetic make-up, what would happen if we lost the ability to clone? Reproduction would have to occur the natural way, which would cause us to inbreed, resulting in many more problems for the human race.