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on like humans do. They forget to consider that Gods will and His workings need to be respected and followed as planned. In the poll taken by CNN1, the question of whether or not people would eat cloned food was asked. 40% of the people said they would not eat cloned fruits or vegetables and 56% said that they would not eat meat from cloned animals. Both of these, even though they cannot reason like humans, are living beings and their life needs to be respected. In the interview conducted by TIME magazine2, Mary Mahowald, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Assistant Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medial Ethics at the University of Chicago states, But we do have moral responsibilities toward non-human animals and I believe most of us recognize that non-human animals are at times treated inhumanly unjustifiably. She too realizes the importance of having a moral respect for the non-human beings in our world. We even need to realize how immoral it is to clone people to make spare parts for people even if it can save lives. When interviewed by TIME, even research scientist Dr. Colin Stewart3 states, It would be completely unethical to clone people for the point of taking their organs because they would be individualsAt the moment, we cannot produce spare parts like a kidney, liver, or heart in culture. When scientists are working with a part of the body, it is comforting to know that the scientist knows about every aspect of that part of the body. But this is not the case with cloning and scientists knowledge of it. Dr. Stewart now states7, We dont know yet what the genes are that give us our individuality, our characteristics, the genes that are associated with higher intelligence, if there are any. That is simply way in the future. Way in the futurethis is the same line that should be associated with the practice of cloning. Dr. Stewart admits that scientists dont know everything about gen...

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