Should Research on Human Cloning be banned?

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Naveen joshi said:   1 decade ago
Research on things is very good thing but life is god gifted and everybody got it once so cloning in human may effects in various physical activity which is not good for human .
By taking an example - suppose my friend says that cloning is good thing and then suppose i am scientist and i call him for cloning test on him then he definitely not agree , because everybody want to live his life without pain or deceases.
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Kerri l said:   1 decade ago
Well shouldn't the scientist Reaserching cloning should let the public in to see what their actually doing, because a lot of what their doing not much people know about. And maybe they should be a bit more enviromental and try and reduce the embryos that are discarded in the process. And just asking is cloning animal abuse?
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Suraj said:   1 decade ago
Cloning Human will take away that Unique identity from us which GOD has given to us.history is there telling us that whenever human tried to play with nature,it caused nothing but the Destruction only.Apart from that i would like to say that O.K. there are pro's of cloning like we can find cure to diseases and organ transplantation etc..but think what threat it will pose to the national and individual security.What if you come to know that the person who is running your country is just a puppet or clone sent by enemies..what if police arrests you for a crime which your clone did.So all i want say is giving life and bring it to existance is GOD's sovergine right,we shouldn't play with it.
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Shalini said:   1 decade ago
I feel that research is a way to explore things which are hidden and unrevealed. So according to me research in any field should not be banned or compromised, because a research always open new avenues for humans. Now talking precisely on human cloning researches I feel the same for these. This is also a field which is less explored and talked about. I totally agree to the side effects it holds and the disaster it could produce if used with less care, but my point is that, is there any thing which does not have a negative aspect to it? Has man ever invented a thing which is completely harmless and does not have any negative touch to it? So why is this indignation to cloning research?

Scientist should not stop their research in this field too, as we might not know what new invention could hit our sight while researching on this topic.
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Sagar said:   1 decade ago
All matter is composed of basic elements. Science calls them enzymes, atoms and molecules. Certain molecules react in a particular way to produce certain reactions.

This is an undisputed fact.

If in a possibility that, man can ever make those molecules behave exactly as NATURE did it in its course of billions of years of evolution, then is it not a wonder?

Clonning is not a boon or curse in itself. It all comes down to who uses it for what and how it is recieved by the masses.

Clonning of humans is a far distant goal yet to be realized. As a science may not be banned in my opinion.
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Ankur saha said:   1 decade ago
Well friends every topic has two faces. Whether it is advantageous or disadvantageous.

Clonning as per biotech confrontation is said to form a copy of the original one.

But while having clonning in case of human there are some diificulties.

1) there should be no concept of family.

2) female sholud be considered as manipulator and childrens as product.

3) there shall be no father to daughter or mother to son relationship.

4) clonning of one individual having one specific property shall give rise to a clone having deficient to the qualities of the individual.

Well now everyone should have heard the name "DOLLY" a clone sheep.

She was found to have some problem with artheritis at the age of about 5 months. As the stem cells that has been taken from the mother. So humans could suffer from various diseases at early age if they are being clonned.

*clonning of individual for nation security purposes would have a beneficial act.
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Santhoshi said:   1 decade ago
As every coin has two sides, even this art of cloning has both pros and cons. The art of cloning has been encouraged by few countries.

For example: If a famous sports player knews that his life is going to end within a shot span due to failure of heart. This art of cloning may help him to create a unique identity of this player and may replace his heart with that of clone and he may survive.
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Mounika said:   1 decade ago
Hello, friends.

I believe that cloning should not be banned. It should be continued to know the things which ever not known till now. Doing research on cloning may leads to great achievement. We have so many pros and cons but we should ignore it. Reseach on cloning should be taken as like on other fields.
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Amit Kumar Rai said:   1 decade ago
There are two types of human cloning:therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning basically deals with duplicating cells and organs which will be provided for treatment of malfunctioned organs. It will have great medical significance and it will provide great assistance in treating diseases like cancer and AIDS. Reproductive cloning will generate identical twin of an individual. This cloned individual will have a tendency to behave exactly as the subject individual thanks to the similar genetic architecture. Therefore this new "human being" will have a right to say, in case he commits a horrible crime or is manipulated by some notorious organization, that he was destined to do so, that his life is planned and he has no control over it. This can trigger chaos in the society. Secondly human cloning will complicate the problem of parentage in society. For example a woman donating DNA for a baby to be born through cloning will be clone's genetic twin not his mother. So the set up genetic relationship b/w a mother and child will change and it will complicate the society. But above all creating a new human is asexual and will disrupt the balance of nature. That's why I am in favor of therapeutic cloning and against reproductive cloning.
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Shanks said:   1 decade ago
Researches and ethics are always counter to each other but it is also true that both are important for the betterment of the society. As on the research on human cloning, my point is that it should not be banned but it should be done by keeping ethics in mind. It is true that to clone the human is as to interfere in the the work of God, but we can not stop researching by keeping this in mind. Research is always necessary and human clone will definitely give a new light ot research. We can't forget that Gallelio was sacrificed on the point to interfere in god's work but later it was found that he was right.

Scientist should work keeping all points in mind.
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