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Oppose Cloning
posted by Claude R. Sasso Ph.D. on 11 Feb 2006 at 6:13 pmHuman theraeuptic cloning is plain wrong because it destroys human life, which begins at conception. Leave to God what is God's. Adult stem cells produce cures. No cures have come from the more unstable embryonic stem cells. Don't be fooled.
Read the news article that this opinion was posted about:
Mo. County Circuit Judge Upholds Language In Title Of Stem Cell Research Ballot Proposal
Hospitals
posted by Alex Babb on 07 Sept 2006 at 7:50 pm
You do know that cloning can save many peoples lives. It can give people a second chance. Plus it can give us an almost unlimited number of transplants.
Cloning
posted by Anonymous on 06 Jan 2007 at 4:01 pm
I understand why cloning could be misused, but it could also save hundreds of peoples lives. I know if I had an organ problem and had the choice of waiting on a list for a new liver or having a healthy one cloned and have the transplant within the month, I would definitely pick the second option.
NO WAY!!
posted by Anonymus on 30 Jan 2007 at 6:15 pm
OK. Cloning is so stupid!!! It totally takes away our individuality as a person! Plus, we already live in a over-populated world. We dont need clones.
I Believe
posted by George Smith Hertfordshire on 09 Feb 2007 at 3:05 am
I believe that cloning is wrong because it is making a new child for couples even though there are many homeless children in the world who these couples could look after. Have a heart!
What!!!!!!
posted by daniel bittersnip on 10 Feb 2007 at 12:32 pm
Cloning is wrong because it is taking someone else' s life away from them.
Nutural
posted by bert on 26 Feb 2007 at 6:31 am
i would not say cloning was wrong, but it isn't right eather
Cloning Sucks
posted by laura on 05 Mar 2007 at 2:29 am
Lets see- it can save people's lives because of organ transplants. But it is morally wrong. Why, you ask, is it OK to 2 of the same type of people. I'm sure the world couldn't exist with another one of me. So what makes you so special. It is way to expensive anyway
Cloning Can Help Us!
posted by Jared on 22 Mar 2007 at 2:48 pm
I beleive cloning may help the world progress in the scientific field. It may help people with unhealthy organs, if you could just clone a copy of a healthy organ, why shouldn't we? It is not like we are actually cloning extra humans, we are cloning humans for organs! If God really didn't want cloning he wouldn't give us the knowledge of figuring out how. Cloning is a GREAT IDEA!
Cloning Is Okay If There Are Boundaries
posted by anon on 22 Apr 2007 at 11:53 am
I think it is okay to clone organs and clone for infertile couples. We should use stem cell research to find cures for incurable things. We can also clone those animals that are endangered, but not clone humans. If we could clone to learn more things about animals and such.
Cloning
posted by Nisha Dugar on 12 May 2007 at 4:00 am
Cloning can no doubt help people replace important body organ's but then for using it to reproduce is a bad idea coz there are thousands of orphanage homes where little one's, no one to be called their own, live. So, it would be a better idea to adopt them rather than go for wasting money on cloning. It might in future develop a new basis on which people would be discriminated and again the same cycle with all the unwanted issues would crop up further.
Cloning
posted by Lizandra Lopez on 24 May 2007 at 7:15 am
i think that cloning is good for our world in refrence to finding cures and transplants but it is rediculous to use cloning as giving to an unhappy couple unable to create one of there own concidering there are millions of orphins in this world in whom seek for loving parents and healthy homes. Dont turn that down.
God's Final Word
posted by essential pickle on 26 Sept 2007 at 9:48 am
Its not as if actual clones of living people have been made. For people who seem so opinionated you're not very well informed. Also the personality could be totally different. God has nothing to do with anything for he is a farce.
God isn't real, most who believe in him are weak minded. Hitler brainwashed millions into believing in his opinion's from an early age. Religious parents do the same. No one who believes in God can pass judgement on cloning as there is no reference in the bible. Cloning wasn't around when God was made up. Also the first testament didn't work so they made a new one. God persecutes gay's, but we stopped that years ago (not completely). Cloning is the same. People fear what they do not understand. Hell hath no fury for those who dwell in the past. (direct bible quote).
Cloning Is An Advancement In Science.
posted by Cloning Supporter on 02 Oct 2007 at 7:55 pm
I believe that cloning is correct in the minds of scientists. It could truly save the lives of dying people. Scientists have figured out a way to only clone a certain organ of a person's body. So technically, a clone would not actually be a living breathing clone of a person. Only that organ would be living persay. Also scientists clone vegetables such as carrots and cauliflower all the time. This happens if a growing season may not be so well one year. The scientists would take a few of the good carrots, and clone them thousands of times. So, if you oppose cloning, just think, you could be eating one right now.
Wait A Sec...
posted by Phil (not very special but it works) on 23 Oct 2007 at 11:41 pm
i believe that cloning organs to save peoples lives is a GREAT idea and will no doubt help.
i would also like to say (in response to an earlier opinion) that saying God does not exist and that those who believe he does are weak minded is a rather unfair opinion. Also, even if God isnt real, does that make all religeons a terrible thing? i believe that believing a lie for the sake of people first having hope and second wanting to do good is a fairly positive thing. Also, whilst people may not be able to pass judgment on cloning from a religeous point of view they can still do it from a moral one and you have no right to say otherwise.
Stupid
posted by paul akers on 01 Nov 2007 at 2:30 am
cloning is wrong baby its just wrong and not right unless ur a twin but neva a pet ever
ITS A GOOD IDEA
posted by yana on 25 Nov 2007 at 4:23 pm
I think cloning is a good idea i understand we are doing someting crazy but we can do so many things by cloning like we can bring extinct animals back to life and i'm not saing bring dinosaurs back but some animals that are not so dangorus.It may sound stupid and wrong but i believe we can help animals and the warld.
Just So You Know...
posted by anon on 27 Nov 2007 at 5:40 pm
just so everyone knows...
identical twins are clones
Well. . .
posted by anon on 27 Nov 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hey essential pickle-
for someone who thinks that religion is a brainwasher, you sure seem to like relying on it as a proof.
Extinct Animals
posted by anon on 27 Nov 2007 at 5:49 pm
number one thing not to do w/ cloning:
BRING BACK EXTINCT ANIMALS!
Firstly, it ruins entire ecosystems that have evolved to live without those animals
secondly, it gives humans the mindframe that they can go out an hunt animals or destroy their habitats
b/c "hey, we can always bring them back!"
Personally...
posted by clarie on 17 Dec 2007 at 1:35 pm
i think that killing a embryo to save a life is a good thing. it has no personality or emotions. nobody REALLY LOVES it yet... they can't. They don't even KNOW it yet. it's just a bunch of cells. it's a human, yes. but it isn't a person that laughs and cries and hugs and punches and bites.
Cloning
posted by sipi on 11 Jan 2008 at 9:00 am
i think cloning is a bad i dea because your killing a person.
What Do U Mean Don't Clone ....
posted by Love <3 on 17 Jan 2008 at 4:03 pm
Cloning is okay as long as u have the correct boundaries .I agree wth mst of the other opinions.
To Claire
posted by bob baker on 24 Jan 2008 at 9:56 am
In reference to killing an innocent embryo in order to benefit the cloning of organs, I disagree. You state that "nobody REALLY LOVES it yet... they can't. They don't even KNOW it yet. It's just a bunch of cells. it's a human, yes. but it isn't a person that laughs and cries and hugs and punches and bites." (Claire)
As you state this embryo is in fact a person. It is, and should be, entitled to the basic rights that all humans posses; the right to life to be more specific. Just because they are helpless and dependent does not make it right to take away their whole essence of their being.
Also, when a women becomes pregnant she is immediately attached to the person growing inside of her, even if they do not "know it". Try telling a young mother who has had a miscarriage that she did not love her seedling.
Thank you for your time
In Response To Clarie
posted by Ali Gaih Tohr on 25 Jan 2008 at 2:28 pm
I would like to piggie-back on Bob's comment. I have a friend who has a three year-old daughter who, due to medical reasons, cannot laugh, cry, hug, punch or bite. So Clarie, would you consider her 'just a bunch of cells'?
I am of the opinion that we don't know exactly when an embryo has life; some say when it is conceived. Others say it is not alive until it is born. Obviously this argument is a matter of opinion, and we will not resolve the issue here; however, it is interesting to hear everyone's opinion. I definitely do not agree with human cloning. I think we need to be careful with our scientific research. We are NOT God. Try as we may, we will never be able to create as perfectly as He does. We should not create human embryos, let alone destroy them. That's all I have to say about that. Gracias.
Wait A Minute...
posted by Kirsten on 03 Feb 2008 at 6:08 am
I think that cloning for transplants is a great idea, just like Jared, apart from the God bit, but changing a baby to your own specifications (for cosmetic reasons, like eye or hair colour) is stupid, because if you feel that you cannot love your child unless it looks a certain way, then you shouldn’t be allowed to have a child. However, if your family history means that your child will be born with a terrible illness, then you should have this option to change it’s DNA make up to ensure that it won’t have to go through months of waiting for a donor to give whatever body part or cell your baby will need.
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