The Next Generation of Cloning Hundreds of countries around the world are scrambling to ban human cloning, but scientists are convinced cloning can be useful in the near future. Cloning is making a replica of an organism or a cell, a copy of a human or mammal and making two or more of them. There have been a majority of people that have appealed to cloning and whether human beings should not be cloned nor should cloning be used. There has been many reasons for whether cloning should be allowed or not allowed. The heated debate over human cloning has changed how society views human life. This issue is dividing American society. Many argue that cloning is risky, unsafe, and can be harmful to mankind. Others contend cloning to be beneficial and …show more content…
Parents who have lost children undergo grieving and sought consolation from family and community. Losing a child can shatter a couple, but with cloning, it would be possible to bring that child back. Cloning could be used to bring back loved ones who have died. According to Inmaculada De Melo-Martín, author of “On Cloning Human Beings”, “...they want to have a baby who would share with the dead one, some specific trait, such as strength or interest in music. Or maybe cloning that loved one is a way to accept the loss and move on with their lives” (262). Even better, it may be beneficial to clone a deceased loved one, perhaps to continue a biological lineage (Pearson 4). Cloning could be used to replace family members who have died in accidents, in fires, or other unavoidable disasters, so it would feel like they are still there with them. It might feel like they still have the comfort of them being there, even through this tragic event that has taken place. The American society will almost certainly be able to clone the dead from cells taken from their bodies before they die, and kept alive in culture, this is a standard technique. In this way parents could "reproduce" a carbon copy of a child who tragically died (De Melo-Martín 262). For example, Dolly the sheep was made using frozen cells and along with others cloned species. As reported by John Pearson, author of “Point: The Benefits of Cloning Research”, “Clonaid claimed in January 2003 that they had cloned the dead son of a Japanese couple who had been killed in an accident” (4). With this technique it would allow the comfort they still would cherish with the feeling that they are there with