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The perils of Cloning

A clone is a genetically identical copy of a living organism. When cloning takes place the nucleus is taken from an unfertilized egg, the genetic material is extorted, and then inserted into the empty egg. Tiny chemical shocks launch cell division and the egg begins to grow. For many years cloning has been a very controversial matter. Even though human cloning has not yet advocated a credible claim concerning the benefits, it does on the other hand have the inevitable power to violate the God given rights of man kind.
Professor of bioethics, Ruth Macklin states that “adult persons have a right not to be cloned without their voluntary, informed consent” (Macklin498). In discord to her first statement she argues that “if such...

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