Therapeutic Cloning
Is it OK to use living embryos for therapeutic cloning?
Background information on Therapeutic Cloning
Pros
- Therapeutic cloning can save someones life
- It can be used to cure the non-curable diseases. Diseases that are in your organs.
- The organ would less likely be rejected In the persons body because the tissue they were replacing is genetically identical to the new organ
- Using therapeutic cloning does not harm any person unless something goes wrong with the transplant
- You do not get any used organs so there is less of a chance of failure
Cons
- A human embryo is a living thing so when you turn it into the organ, you are killing it.
- By killing the embryo, you are violating the "Nuremburg Code-that there should be no experimentation on a human subject when death or disabling injury will result."
- People think that a person should die when their time comes, not to kill someone to get extra lives
People Related to Therapeutic Cloning
Christopher Reeve
Elizabeth Blackburn
Orrin Hatch and Arlen Specter
Conclusion
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