organism would be immuneto the disease. Cloning endangered species will not help the problem of them beingendangered. Zoologists and environmentalists trying to save endangered species are nothaving trouble keeping population numbers up. The problem is not having any animals tobreed that are not related in some way. And cloning relatives would only cause theproblem to increase (Hawley, 1998). The technique of nuclear transfer is in early development stages, therefore, errorsare occurring when scientists carry our the procedure. It took 277 tries to produce“Dolly”, the sheep cloned in Roslin, Scotland by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell at theRoslin Institute (Wertz, 1998a). Roslyn Institute Scientists produced many lambs withabnormalities before “Dolly” was born. If we tried to clone endangered species, we wouldpossibly kill the last females integral to the survival of a species. This may be the mainreason science is holding out on human cloning. Other arguments for cloning include the fact that scientist are taking nature intotheir own hands by cloning animals and people. People question when humans will drawthe line for getting involved in natural events. Different religious organizations agree thatcloning is an intrusion to the human body, it is dehumanizing, it deprives a person fromuniqueness, and it disturbs the genetic ecosystem, a community together with itsenvironment, functioning as a unit (Anees, 1995). Numerous science ethicist say thatcloning does not respect the fact that humans have souls, and that their rights will bedefied because clones are not granted the birth of newness. People also wonder whatmental and emotional problems would result if a clone was to find out that he or she was aclone (Hawley, 1998).At this point, cloning should not used in any shape or fashion. Based on thepreceding facts, it is obvious that cloning needs to be perfected before it is used by any organization or...
