Human Cloning - Should it be done?

Human Cloning - The benefits:

One of the most appealing benefits of human cloning is the availability of spare organs by transgenicity. Scientists are attempting to create transgenic pigs that have human genes. Their heart, liver or kidneys might be useable as organ transplants in humans. This would save many lives; thousands of people die each year waiting for available human organs. Once achieved, transgenic animals could be cloned to produce as many organs as are needed.

Researchers have produced transgenic animals. These are genetically altered, typically in order to produce human hormones or proteins in its milk. These materials can be separated from the milk and used to heal humans. Cloning would produce as many genetically altered animals as are needed. The alternative is to simply allow them to mate; this would produce many offspring that had lost the inserted human gene and thus would be unable to produce the medication.

Human cloning could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialised countries.

The average person carries 8 defective genes inside them. These defective genes allow people to become sick when they would otherwise remain healthy. With human cloning and its technology it may be possible to ensure that we no longer suffer because of our defective genes.

A lot many genetic disorders caused by the presence of the gene causing that disorder could be avoided in offsprings by cloning, by making sure that there is no expression of that particular gene.

We may learn how to switch cells on and off through cloning and thus be able to cure cancer. Scientists still do not know exactly how cells differentiate into specific kinds of tissue, nor to they understand why cancerous cells lose their differentiation. Cloning, at long last, may be the key to understanding differentiation and cancer.

These are only a handful of the various benefits that can be achieved by the process of human cloning. One must keep in mind, that human cloning is not only about producing identical individuals. There are a lot many more aspects attached to it, which my some day render a perfect world, genetically speaking.

Human cloning - A Critique:

The strongest argument against cloning is that it deprives the human race if it’s genetic diversity. If all were to have the same genetic structure, then after a certain point if time, we will have to inbreed. Any disease of genetic origin could wipe out the entire race. The human race would lose its capacity to adapt and evolve.