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Cloning:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01027-z

What's the issue?
The main issue here is the fact that the monkeys were cloned from previous monkeys. This causes an issue as if this technology is continued, human cloning could become a thing, which raises many ethical questions.
Why should scientists purse it? Why should they not?
Scientists should pursue this topic as If they improve their technique, they could then efficiently make clones of different animals, or humans. This could allow for transplants to become a lot easier, and faster as doctors could have cloned body parts ready that match the patient. Of course this also means that there are certain ethical questions that need to be addressed. If human cloning becomes common, and they have a 100% match with their original counterparts, then they will have functioning brains. This means that you can't just take a heart for example from them as it would kill them. They would have a consciousness and would be alive with emotions, and feelings. They wouldn't just be there for their body parts to be used, and for them to just donate their body and die. Also, if they couldn't be used for their transplant needs like this then cloning would pose a huge problem in terms of population. Overpopulation is already a major problem in the world, and having all these extra clones there would negatively impact this problem. This would also cause a problem with things such as jobs as there is already a limited amount of space for people to have jobs to support their family.
Is the pressure coming from inside or outside the scientific community?
The pressure is mostly coming from inside the scientific community as they are the ones with all the information about this topic and want to find a way to advance medical research in an ethical way. 

Comments

  1. Hamel February 6, 2018 at 11:38 PM

    Your blog was very insightful and well written. But, your blog left me with a lot of curiosity, on why are scientist wanting to create human clones very unethical? You should go into detail into this since it made me think a lot, and what would happen to the human being cloned? What would make them so different then the original human that was being cloned?

    Overall, good structure.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 6, 2018 at 11:41 PM

    You have given a general idea on how cloning could affect society and potential harms to the clone itself but it should be more specific ad relate to ethics itself. Overall, good job!

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