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What is cloning?

The term ‘designer babies’ has many meanings which one definition can be made is ‘cloning’.
Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. This means that
every single bit of DNA is the same between the two. Now, there are human clones among us.
They were not made in a lab, however they are identical twins, created naturally. Actually,
natural identical twins relate to modern cloning technologies.
The conversational term ‘designer babies’ has been used in popular scientific and bioethics
literature to specify a child whose hereditary makeup would be, using various reproductive and
genetic technologies, with determination selected designed to be the optimal recombination of
their parents genetic material. The term is usually used as a criticism to signal opposition to such
use of human biotechnologies.
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing or previously
existing human. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning. Human clones in
the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural
process of reproduction. There are two commonly discussed types of human cloning that is
therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. A third type of cloning called replacement cloning
exists in theory and is a combination of therapeutic and reproductive cloning.

Ethical issues of cloning

Cloning is good in the expression of having replacing the people of our love ones from the dead.
It is also good on morale support as it give a boost up to the sentiment. This definition can be
define from the phrase by ‘possibility that such groups of people might become prejudiced
against one another due to a feeling of lost common humanity with non-enhanced or differently-
enhanced groups.’
Human cloning is among the most controversial forms of the practice. There have been
numerous demands for all progress in the human cloning field to be halted. Some people and
groups oppose therapeutic cloning but many more oppose reproductive cloning. The American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and other scientific organizations have
made public statements suggesting that human reproductive cloning be banned until safety issues
are resolved.
Serious ethical issues have arisen in discussions of harvesting of organs from clones. Some
people have considered the idea of growing organs separately from a human organism. In doing
this, a new organ supply could be established without the moral implications of harvesting them
from human organisms. Although the practice of cloning organisms has been widespread for
several thousands of years in the form of horticultural cloning, the recent technological
advancements that have allowed for cloning of animals (potentially humans) have been highly
controversial.
Some believe it is unethical to use a human clone to save the life of another. Others have
countered that people who exist today and have interpersonal relationships and personal histories
should take precedence over never-conscious life at any stage of developmental maturity.

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