Why is the research on cloning of humans banned?

Answer 1

Well, before I answer this question I would ask youto spend a few minutes thinking - what will be the the situation if there are many replicas of yourself around in your place? Assume that you are suffering from some disease which costs you a kidney, so now you desperately need kidney.Will you kill your replica and take it? I sincerely doubt.Which one of your replica must respond when you mother calls?And whom will she hug if she has to? I think you are clear now.

When we start cloning human beings the genuinity will be lost and life will loose its value.Love and affection will loose its importance because of this.This would also punch a hole into our ethics and moral values.That is why cloning of humans is banned.

Answer 2

I think the reason why human cloning is banned is because its considered unethical.
But, why unethical???
Well, there are many reasons. But, I believe there are only a few real ethical concerns this research raises.

1. The process of cloning a complex organism like human being involves creating millions of embryos. Out of millions created at the initial stages of research, only a few successfully develop into healthy foetuses. This means that the procedure involves creating millions of potential human babies that are bound to die in a few hours/days. This can be viewed as purposefully killing 1000's and millions of human lives.

2. The clones we would get may not be able to survive for a long period of time.

3. In case of therapeutic cloning, where the clones are not allowed to grow into foetus (and into a human being) but into a specific organ. This means you are preventing a potential human from developing into a normal person.

4. The poor success ratio in human cloning is due to the not-so-perfect techniques available for cloning. There is a need to perfect these methods and procedures with other animals before we can risk with human lives.

Answer 3

In February the U.S. Senate voted 54 to 42 against bringing an anticloning bill directly to the floor for a vote.1 During the debate, more than 16 scientific and medical organizations, including the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, and 27 Nobel prize–winning scientists, agreed that there should be a moratorium on the creation of a human being by somatic nuclear transplants. What the groups objected to was legislation that went beyond this prohibition to include cloning human cells, genes, and tissues. An alternative proposal was introduced by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and modeled on a 1997 proposal by President Bill Clinton and his National Bioethics Advisory Commission. It would, in line with the views of all of these scientific groups, outlaw attempts to produce a child but permit all other forms of cloning research.2,3 Because the issue is intimately involved with research with embryos and abortion politics, in many ways the congressional debates over human cloning are a replay of past debates on fetal-tissue transplants4 and research using human embryos.5 Nonetheless, the virtually unanimous scientific consensus on the advisability of a legislative ban or voluntary moratorium on the attempt to create a human child by cloning justifies deeper discussion of the issue than it has received so far.

It has been more than a year since embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues announced to the world that they had cloned a sheep.6 No one has yet duplicated their work, raising serious questions about whether Dolly the sheep was cloned from a stem cell or a fetal cell, rather than a fully differentiated cell.7 For my purposes, the success or failure of Wilmut's experiment is not the issue. Public attention to somatic-cell nuclear cloning presents an opportunity to consider the broader issues of public regulation of human research and the meaning of human reproduction

Answer 4

most religious groups freak on this is the main reason.

some scientists freak worrying about 'oh my cloning a human and reproducing them oh evil un ethical!'

clone a person and get an identical person? not really. identical twins have the same genes. no twins on this planet are the same exact height. none on this planet have the same finger prints. none are exactly the same in intellect. why? there experiences growing up changes them. why is one taller? maybe one like calcium a tad more maybe one preffers to ride his bike and falls a bit more damaging tissue, causing an increased need for red blood cells causing a reduction in resources for growth etc etc etc. the lists of differences at the emotion, social, experience, chemical, and environmental levels is insane.

oh and when they say cloen a hukman being there not talking about making a whole other human being then cuttign there liver out and giving it to the 'real' child. usually they mean cloning ONLY the liver. aka orgon replacement cloning, something that could literally end cardiac disease, lung cancer, testicular cancer, pancreatic disease, etc etc. basicly if something fails they _should_ be able to simply replace it up to (and even possibly includeing parts of) the brain. this is far far in the future of course (they have only so far done bladder organ construction which is basicly a thin baloon with some blood vessels which is relativly simple and even here they did it with non cloned tissue and instead with donated tissue samples)

Answer 5

In cloning a human being will not have any parents and he will not feel anybody's love. And if human cloning has permission, most members will have identicals(in cloning a man can be produced so similar that there will be no difference in moles and even in finger prints). If any body does any crime it would be difficult to find out who had done that crime. And any how banning of human cloning is a benifit to us.

Answer 6

There are many ethical considerations which have not been addressed. For example: A couple has a child with a severe kidney defect. Can they create a clone of that child, just to harvest the kidneys when they become viable?

Answer 7

Cloning is against the law of nature
If Cloning is done on a large scale,the balance of nature might be disturbed and as a result..the world may come to an end
Hence cloning is banned

Moreover it is against most religions as it makes us a creator and we may think ourself to be God!

Answer 8

1. They afraid that the cloning of humans might create a destructive monster.

2. It`s against the God`s law for people who believe in HIM

3. The banner hates science

Answer 9

We dont want the scientists to clone themself creating millions of clones

Answer 10

suppose you need a clone of your and you got one then what will be relationship to your clone and to your parents, what will be the relationship to your clone and to your wife/husband. there are many such ethical issues, so it has been banned