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Ethical issues of reproductive cloning.

Original paragraph:

Religious Belief and Control

Cloning goes against the basic belief of certain religions that only God has created life and its various forms in nature. Humans cannot act as God. Even when genetically identical twins are born, their embryo splits spontaneously or randomly to give a new unique genetic combination. Cloning involves a controlled split of the embryo to produce a tailor-made genetic make up. Ethically, it is wrong for any human to have control over the genetic make up of any other individual. More so, the cloned individual would be generated for specific purposes. This in essence is wrong wherein the purpose of an individual's life should be more than just satisfying someone else's needs.

Relationships and Individuality

Cloning creates a new human, yet strips him off his individuality. A man, along with his clone can never be dignified as a single identity. The uniqueness attributed to humans from God might be at stake. The replication of an individual is a major blow to his most distinct feature - his identity. Another fact is that we are unsure how the cloned individual might react and behave with regards to his family and parents. Furthermore, if the cloned individual is cloned from his grandparents and not his parents, would he/she be considered a sibling? How would he/she react? How would the parents and family regard the cloned individual? When we are unsure about the implications or consequences of such situations, it is ethically wrong to subject any individual to such tests as fellow human beings.

Key ideas:

- It is ethically wrong
- Only god should create life
- Humans shouldn't act like gods.
- Humans should not have the power to control genes of another individual
- The next generation of offspring should be naturally varied and not someone controlling it.
- People would lose their individuality
- Two humans who look extremely alike would be less unique
- Relationships of the clone with their "parents" would turn out to be different as the environmental       factors are different

Paraphrasing:
       Cloning in most cases is ethically wrong. Religious figures believe that only God should be able to create life and humans should not be able too. We believe so because god is the almighty creator which was able to form life meanwhile humans are just his or her creations and we should not create one another. Giving humans the ability to control genes of others would be very dangerous too, it is not definite if whether all would be able to do that or whether people have the right intentions to clone. People should also not be able to control the genetic formula of one another as if they would, people would be less unique and would be harder to improve because if they are able to control it, they would try to prevent bad genes from creating the person and later on they would try to separate it which gives less room for people to evolve and to be better. Through reproductive cloning, people would lose their individuality too because if cloning happens, two humans are going to look very alike and act quite a like and that would make them less differentiated. Another of its ethical problem is that they would act and behave differently to their parents. Since most of our behavior is an environmental factor, not all clones and the original human will act identically.

Citation:
Putatunda, Rita. "Ethical Issues of Cloning." Buzzle. Buzzle.com, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2014. <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ethical-issues-of-cloning.html>.