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Arguments Against Reproductive Cloning. 1. Reproductive cloning would foster an understanding of children, and of people in general, as objects that can be designed and manufactured to possess specific characteristics. 2. Reproductive cloning would diminish the sense of uniqueness of an individual.
• Genetic research: Cell cloning could assist scientists in gene editing and research. • Selective human traits: After editing or removing bad genes, cloning could lead engineered humans for specific traits. • Human development: Cloning could enhance and advance human development.
Many ethical arguments against cloning technologies and embryonic stem cell research argue that doing such research inherently destroys human life. We cannot dismiss these arguments, as they propose a valid question, that is—how do we define a human life?
In a prescient 1982 contribution, British philosopher Ruth Chadwick listed the main objections to cloning, addressed and refuted them from a preference utilitarian point of view. 8 The arguments she tackled concerned unnaturalness, functioning, playing God, rights to genetic uniqueness and privacy, worthwhile lives, preferences, and side ...
The central argument in favor of reproductive cloning is expansion of opportunities for reproduction. Reproductive cloning could offer a new means for prospective parents to satisfy their reproductive goals or desires.
As arguments against human cloning he cited: There is no right to have a genetically related child. Cloning is not safe. Cloning is not medically necessary. Cloning could not be delivered in an equitable manner. Billings also believes that the benefits of stem cell therapies have been "wildly oversold."
Advocates of human cloning argue that it would have important uses, such as allowing parents to clone a child who’s been tragically lost in an accident or through illness. The technology could also allow scientists to grow replacement tissues and organs that are accepted by the body without the need for immunosuppressive drugs.
Cloning - Ethical Controversy: Human reproductive cloning remains universally condemned, primarily for the psychological, social, and physiological risks associated with cloning.
The argument is that therapeutic cloning raises issues of global justice that, if not addressed through regulation, might pose a threat to human integrity. Liberty and Morality The apparent international consensus against reproduc- tive cloning reflects a popular sentiment that deeply oppos- es human cloning.