Update #3

Update #3

Limitations and Benefits of Reproductive Cloning

Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
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Reproductive cloning has a success rate of only 0.1% to 3%. Although reproductive cloning has its major flaws, it does have some great benefits too. It is a way of cloning human beings. Unlike therapeutic cloning which only clones human cells to create new organs or tissues, when using reproductive cloning, you would clone a whole human and all its cells. Some of its disadvantages are: it is unethical, low success rate, people wouldn't be unique, etc....

Disadvantages of reproductive cloning:

- Low success rate of only 0.1%-3%. 
- It is unethical, people believe that replicating another human being would be wrong as it would be wrong to treat people unfairly as if one would have a clone, it would exactly like him/ her.
- The next generation would have less uniqueness or would look like the previous and it wouldn't produce better humans but later on, produce similar or same humans
- When using SCNT, a method of reproductive cloning, the stem cell will be unstable causing the clone to have a chance that they will have abnormal parts or organs of the body.
- It would be unethical too because religious figures believe that a child or human being should be a reflection of the love of the man and the woman but, these clones are not made by love but rather, from a test tube.

Benefits of reproductive cloning:

- It would make the infertile person be very happy to have a child.
- Cloning is a reproductive right so, people should only have clones if they agree to.
- It can be used to resurrect or bring back extinct species or if they still exist, we can use it to repopulate the species.

Summary:

All in all, although reproductive cloning has more disadvantages than advantages, it is believed that it still can be used as a natural way of asexual reproduction. It has been also shown that reproductive cloning will be very good of future use too, you can use it to resurrect extinct species, help infertile people have biological children. etc... So, in the future, reproductive cloning should be revised and improved so that infertile people or gays would be able to have their children too.

Citations:

"Limitations to Therapeutic Cloning: More Research Yet to Be Done." Bright Hub. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014. <http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/63030.aspx>.

"CGS : Reproductive Cloning Arguments Pro and Con." CGS : Reproductive Cloning Arguments Pro and Con. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Oct. 2014. <http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=282>.

"Reproductive Cloning." BioCentre. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014. <http://www.bioethics.ac.uk/topics/reproductive-cloning.php>.