Ethnical issue of cloning

Dolly and her first born lamb, Bonnie

Dolly, a Finn Dorsett ewe was the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in the United Kingdom and lived there until her death when she was six. Dolly's publicity was inevitable because it showed that the genetic material from a specific adult cell programmed to express only a distinct subset of its genes, could be reprogrammed to grow an entirely new organism. However, amidst the celebration of a success in technological advancement in cloning, a more critical issue arose from such a success. It is the ethnical issue behind cloning. There have been many ethnical concerns in controversial issues on the cutting edge of science, cloning in this case. Cloning will do more harm than good to the world, as it challenges the sanctity of life and question even the most basic individuality of each being human being. In a world where human clones are present, it might be conceivable that parents are no longer significant, for they are merely ‘donors’. Even religious groups are beginning to oppose such act of cloning, on the grounds that life beings are conception. Life begins on the inception of pregnancy. There were even arguments if technology allow for successful cloning of humans, prejudice may develop against the clones, as they are being seen as ‘lesser’ form of human beings. The social implications of an human clones, have been explored in the famous movie, The Island.

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Technological Expert - Ernest Ting