Cloning in general and ethics of cloning

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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DECLARATION

I declare that the material stated in this thesis is original and does not present work of any other scholar or research study conducted in the past. Material in this study is not partially or completely published elsewhere and collected only for the purpose of this study. I also acknowledge that I have complete understanding of the requirements, guidelines, regulations and procedures of the University with respect to the endowment of higher education degree and my research work. Here, I would also like to take the opportunity to declare that I have exclusively followed the requirements, guidelines, regulations and procedures of the University regarding this research study.

ABSTRACT

The main focus of this study is to examine the cloning history, types and ethics. There are numerous ethical issues in cloning. These issues may include human rights violation, issues related to person's identity, concerns regarding medical and technical safety. Cloning is certainly the issue of present era. There are a number of cloning pros and cons which making it difficult to decide whether it is right or not. Cloning raises ethical and moral problems. It can be said that effectiveness of cloning is depends on its utilization. Animal cloning is ethical. One can practice cloning of animals to create medicines or cloning as a method to save endangered species.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

Introduction1

Thesis Statement1

History of Cloning2

Types of Cloning4

Recombinant DNA technology4

Reproductive cloning5

Therapeutic cloning6

Bioethics and cloning6

Ethics and Cloning7

The ethics of reproductive cloning8

The ethics of therapeutic cloning8

Reproductive cloning in animals9

Reproductive cloning in humans10

The issue of the identity between clone and original13

A future life and cloning14

Therapeutic Cloning: A Technique15

Human society16

The Limits Of Cloning18

Scientific limitations18

Ethical limits19

Conclusion20

WORK CITED22

Introduction

“People like to look at animals, even to learn from them about human beings and human society. We find the themes of modern America reflected in detail in the bodies and lives of animals. We polish an animal mirror to look for ourselves” Donna J. Haraway (1991b: 21).

An exact copy of an organism or the production of multiple exact copies of a single gene can be done by cloning. In cloning the copy of gene can be created by using the DNA fragment, cell line, or organism. The concept of cloning is regarded as the technique for copying the individuals deterministically. Cloning create the situations where excessive social control will be performed and commodified the human life. The concept of cloning can be defined as a technique which will endanger the purportedly “natural” nuclear family through artificial means of reproduction (Colorow ...