THE ETHICS OF HUMAN CLONING

The argument about human cloning is greatly divided among the population. The medical benefits greatly outweigh its potentially harmful effects on society.
What are ethics of human cloning? Webster’s Dictionary defines a clone as, “a genetically identical duplicate of an organism produced by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a body cell from the organism” (Webster’s Dictionary, 1988). Webster’s Dictionary defines ethics as, “the study of standards of conduct and moral judgement” (Webster’s Dictionary, 1988). In short the ethics of human cloning is the study of the moral standards society sets regarding a genetically identical duplicate of a human.
Cloning began in February of 1997 with the successful genetic duplication of a sheep named Dolly. She was created when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues reconstructed 277 eggs and the eggs had their nucleuses removed. Twenty-nine of those 277 became embryos. Those embryos were tra...