from going extinct.In contrast, people believe that cloning is extremely unethical, immoral, and, as the church feels, against God’s will. There are a lot of negative effects of cloning. The major one is that it is observed as being a moral issue for a lot of people. If cloning were to come about, it might threaten moral and social values by encouraging a form of eugenics and objectification. God has created a universe in which every species has its place and character. Human beings are the only species with the knowledge and will to alter things in the world, and from past experiences with other scientific experiments, one has seen that arrogant altering can lead to great disaster. Human cloning would be useful as an infertility treatment, but there are several infertility treatments that are also ethically problematic. Human cloning would just be one more form of technology that erases theLomax 7lines between parentages, conception and birth. Human descent is not just a matter ofDNA, but of family and ancestry. It was not meant to be a commodity. If cloning human beings begins, one will have changed the definition of what it means to be a human being and erased the stamp of God. Also, anyone to be cloned is at high risk because human cloning is still in the experimental stage.The cloning of human beings would radically alter one's definition of oneself by producing the world’s first human with a single genetic parent (Human Cloning Foundation 4). This would simply undermine human dignity and individuality and encourage one to treat one’s children like commodities. The psychological risks taken by cloning could prove to be disastrous. No one knows what the effect would be on human identity and relationships of creating someone who is the twin of someone’s father or mother, but born in a different generation and environment. The clone might then feel that he was just a copy of someone who already existed and not ...
