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THERAPEUTIC CLONING --- WHY IT SHOULD BE ALLOWED

In my opinion therapeutic cloning, once accomplished successfully, should be continued because I think it would provide great benefits to many people. It will save many lives and increase the quality of many others. A lot of individuals may disagree with therapeutic cloning because it involves the usage and the killing of human embryos in its process. Many view an embryo as a form of life and they believe that it is wrong to kill one human being in order to save another.
Therapeutic cloning has a multi-step process which involves the taking of a DNA sample from a sick patient and inserting it into an embryo taking the place of its original DNA. After about a day the eggs begin dividing and when the number of stem cells reaches about 200 they are removed from the embryo, killing it in the process. At this time the stem cells can be encouraged to grow into whatever tissue or organ is needed to treat the patient. The end result wo...

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