Human Cloning: A Clessing for infertile Couples

Human Cloning: A Blessing for Helpless Couples
“Should human cloning be banned?” The response to this controversial issue may vary from person to person based on their moral and/or religious beliefs. When viewed from my eyes, as a married infertile woman, human cloning would not appear as horrible and degrading as majority of the people believe it is. People may assume different meanings of the word “cloning”. However, an expert, Ruth Hubbard, a professor emeritus of biology at Harvard University who also serves on the Council for Responsible Genetics clarifies the misconceptions by saying: “‘Cloning’ in the science-fiction sense of the word - the production of an exact, 100-percent identical carbon copy - is not possible.”(Lee, Jean K. 1997) So, the fact that cloning will create duplicates of the donor, with the same mental and physical capacities, reducing the value of an individual’s life can be ruled out.
Moreover, Identical twins have more in comm...