Thursday 23 April 2009

Cloning


Honestly, I’d say cloning worries and scares me. Is it truly a good idea to subject people who have failed through fertility treatment, to use another process that, by the sounds of it, is very dangerous? But that isn’t the only thing that worries me. I don’t like the fact that this Dr Zavos has taken advantage of these vulnerable, desperate and unprotected couples and put them through such an emotional process –in secret.

Dr Zavos has been experimenting with human cloning at a secret laboratory due to the universal ban on human cloning. This ban was agreed since most animal cloned embryos have resulted in abnormities from severe development problems to congenital defects.
Dr Zavos claims that cloning technology has improved creating lesser risk however majority of scientist have criticize, commenting that technology is inefficient.

For me this is the big red flag, this Doctor has gone a step further. He took blood cells from a dead ten year old that died tragically in a car accident and fused them with cow eggs to create cloned human-animal hybrid embryos. Thankfully this man has a some sort of concious because he did not transfer the embryos into the mothers womb even though she would sanction this.

I also wonder when successful cloning has been accomplished and used as an acceptable fertility treatment, how much it will cost the NHS and us to provide this treatment.
And finally, is all this really humane?

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