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  • Cloning Of Humans
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    Successful clone of adult sheep born; clone named "Dolly" after the famous country singer February 23, 1997 Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce the birth of "Dolly" March 1997 Following the announcement of "Dolly", President Clinton issues a moratorium that bans the use of federal funds for any project involving human cloning; asks the newly appointed National Bioethics Advisory Board to address the ethical and legal issues surrounding human cloning within three months August...
  • Cloning Animals
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    Cloning Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue. Society is firmly divided on the uses and ethics of cloning. Cloning can rang from producing copies of plants and animals to clones of humans and human organs. But cloning can have several positive effects for the well being of society. Cloning plants can have positive effects fo humans. Scientist can clone plants and alter them to produce healthier food. For example, oranges which contain an abundance of Vitamin C, can ...
  • Human Cloning Should Be Banned
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    HUMAN CLONING SHOULD BE BANNED. At the present time the science has achieved such high level of the development that it became possible to clone not only the cells but the whole organisms. Up to now such experiments were made on the representatives of the animal kingdom. In the late 90's the whole humanity could make sure of such experiment. The news that splashed over the newspaper front pages around the world in 1997 was about sheep Dolly. Dolly was the first mammal to have been successfully c...
  • Clone Human Organs
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    Cloning of Humans Right or Wrong Is cloning humans morally and ethically wrong Are researchers taking many unnecessary risks with all the unknown affects it could bring to the human clone and the ethics of our society today The term clone refers to a group of organisms that are genetically identical. Most such clones result from asexual reproduction, a process in which a new organism develops from only one parent (World Book Encyclopedia). To give you a little history of cloning, it began a long...
  • Patients Worldwide With A Healthy Cloned Organ
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    Should We Clone Organs In recent decades, questions about genetic engineering, genetic modification, and cloning of animals and humans are on the minds of many. On February 27, 1997 when Dr. Ian Wilmot and his team sent chills down our spine with the announcement of the first successfully cloned sheep Dolly. At this time the reality of animal cloning stared us in the face while the human cloning was just around the corner. Have you ever imagined what life would be like if we could eliminate huma...
  • Cloning Humans
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    To Clone or Not to Clone In February 1997, when Dr. Ian Wilmut and his team of scientists in Scotland astonished the world by announcing that they had successfully cloned a sheep, it sparked an international debate. Since the invention of Dolly, scientists have been faced with the imminent technology to clone human beings. This has raised questions about what it means to be human and what restrictions should be placed on scientific research. Scientists should use methods of cloning of individual...
  • Techniques To Clone Humans
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    To Clone or Not To Clone... Since February 23rd, 1997, when British scientists announced they had successfully cloned an adult sheep named Dolly, the world has been scrambling to limit the possibility of using cloning techniques to clone humans. To most people, the idea of cloning humans, and its moral implications, has been safely confined to the realm of science fiction; as something we didn't have to think about until later. Yet, as the world has slumbered, researchers have arrived at a compe...
  • Cloning Of Humans
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    Cloning In recent years the strong debate of human cloning has come into perspective after the cloning of the sheep Dolly, arguing over the ethical and unethical issues has been the main issue. After the cloning of Dolly President Bill Clinton put a five-year ban preventing the use of any or all-federal funding towards human cloning. That does not stop the scientist with his or her own money and courasity to experiment with human cloning. The unethical issue have played a major part in this ban ...
  • Clone Humans
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    The cloning of human beings has been an issue that many people believe strongly in. The cloning of animals such as cows and sheep have already been successful, and many people think that the cloning of human beings is just the next step. This, however, has not gone over well with the government of the United States. Recently, a hearing has been underway to decide whether cloning should be legal in the United States. In fact, President George W. Bush has said that he will do everything possible t...
  • Clone Human Organs
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    Imagine it is the year 2008. As you pick up your daily issue of the New York Times, you begin to read some of the interesting articles on the front page. The top story of the paper reads, 'Germany Wins All Gold Medals at the Olympic Games: Is Cloning in Competitive Events Fair?' Other interesting articles reported on the front page include: 'Rock Star Stacy Levesque and Lover " nuclear Transplanted Child is Born' and 'Former President George Bush's Cloned Heart Transplant Success. ' These articl...
  • Cloning Of A Human Being
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    Cloning Will Not Benefit Society Works Cited Dixon, Patrick. Reasons Against Cloning. 26 July 2002 Holy Bible, King James Version. Anaheim, CA: Lock man Foundation, 1998. Kayotic Development. Anti-Cloning Research. 22 July 2002 New Scientist: Raising The Dead 22 July 2002 Nussbaum, Martha C., and Cass R. Sun stein. Clones and Clones. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. London, 1998 Pence, Gregory E., ed. Flesh Of My Flesh. Rowman & Little Field Publishers, Inc., Oxford, 1998 Roleff, Tamara L., ed. ...
  • Human Clone
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    Cloning is Coming Cloning has become one of the most controversial issues of the century. Cloned animals have proven that it can be done and that the next step would be a cloned human. To many this would be a unethical practice but others see it as a breakthrough in science. Human cloning is very controversial because many are scared of what they don t understand. I am writing this so more people understand the pros and cons of cloning. Many don t ask questions of whether or not a cloned human w...
  • Clone Humans
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    Table of Contents Introduction Definition of Cloning History of Cloning The Embryo Cloning Process The Human Cloning Process Pros of Cloning Cons of Cloning Government involvement in Cloning Misconceptions about Cloning Personal Observations on Cloning Conclusion Bibliography 1. Introduction The controversial topic that will be examined in this paper is cloning and how it has become a major issue within modern society. In 1997, the cloning of the sheep Dolly marked a major breakthrough in scienc...
  • Clone A Human
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    Nicole Plut a November 29, 1998 Scientific experimentation has led us to many great discoveries such as: Chemotherapy, heart surgery, and bone marrow transplants. Recently scientists have discovered a new way to heal humans. This is known as cloning. Although they have yet to clone a human they have cloned sheep. Cloning has brought up a huge controversy among the American people. There are two sides to the story. Either you agree with cloning or you dont. The only way to help make that decision...
  • Cloning Of Non Human Species
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    As individual people and human beings, we are raised with family values. We are taught about the values of marriage, parenthood and respect. With today's technology and cultural diversity in America cloning will assist these values to rapidly diminish. Changes in the broader culture make it now vastly more difficult to express common and respectful understanding of procreation. Cloning is a fairly new and dangerous term that has become much more commonly used and practiced in America. Proponents...
  • Human Clone
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    Human cloning becomes more and more controversial now that the scientists are technologically ready to undertake this revolutionary step in human reproduction. There are many proponents of human cloning who find justifying arguments. They argue that cloning would alleviate trauma and grief for people who lost someone close in an accident because a "replacement" could be created. Further, infertile couples could use cloning techniques to have children. Next, human cloning would terminate genetic ...
  • Experience With Reproductive Cloning In Animals
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    "A total ban should be placed on human reproductive cloning aimed at creating a child". This comment is backed by a National Academies' report that considered only the scientific and medical aspects of this emotional and controversial issue. Based on experience with reproductive cloning in animals, the report concluded that human reproductive cloning would be dangerous both for the woman and the newborn and would more than likely fail. The study panel did not address the issue of whether human r...
  • Fascination As The Cloning Process
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    Cloning is a process that has been debated for decades, and all the arguments are now coming to a head. The thought of cloning has been around since the turn of the century, but was not given much publication until the genre of science fiction pursued it in novels, comics, magazines and television shows in the mid-1950's. When Dolly, a sheep, was cloned, many people, including scientists, religious leaders, politicians, and common people, were held in fascination as the cloning process was expla...
  • Evil Clone Argument
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    Human Cloning A pro and con issue I. Introduction: Take an egg from a female sheep, remove the nucleus (containing all DNA of this sheep), not take a cell from the udder of a female sheep, place that cell in a petri dish. Place the nucleus taken from the egg inside the nucleus of the udder cell, give them a jolt of electricity to begin fusion process, joined egg and cell begin to divide until they form an emerging embryo, egg is transferred to womb of another sheep... cloning is born. Cloning is...
  • Ability To Clone Humans
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    Anti-Cloning Research: To those against it, cloning presents as much a moral problem as a technical problem. For them, cloning is an affront to religious sensibilities; it seems like "playing God", and interfering with the natural process. There are, of course, more logical objections, regarding susceptibility to disease, expense, and diversity. Others are worried about the abuses of cloning. Cloning appears to be a powerful force that can be exploited to produce horrendous results. Their basic ...

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