Blog 5 - Cloning

It took me some time to come up with a controversial topic to cover. After all, controversy can surround most anything as long as their are two sides to the story. However, after looking back in various magazines, I stumbled upon an article on cloning, and that struck my interest. Sure, for some people, cloning a few livestock doesn't seem like much currently. Human cloning, on the other hand, is another story. For me, my take on this is.....don't allow it.

The idea of taking an already living person, then taking their DNA and creating a whole new person, is utterly baffling to me. Not so much because of a religious aspect, though, because I don't let that factor into many of my situations in life. It's mostly how it can be abused so severely. I remember reading in an article about how a person that lost a part of their body can have a clone "spare" ready and waiting. In one case of this, it's growing the part by itself in a lab animal, which is appalling to do so to another living creature. In another, it's creating a whole body that is brain-dead but kept alive through machines. All living creatures ought to have a chance at life instead of becoming a box of parts for someone to take from whenever they wish.

I can understand certain aspects, such as a person having a spare organ to replace one that went bad or was destroyed in an accident, but if it was taken too far, it would be much like a person attempting to reach an immortal state. On top of that, with the idea of the cost behind such science, only the incredibly rich would be able to afford it. Every human, even a clone, would have to have their own rights. To condemn them to such a fate would be inhumane at a level I cannot comprehend, and I stand by that idea stoically.