Against Stem Cell Cloning

Cells that can become other cells in the body are called stem cells. These cells are most likely to occur at the beginning of life. These cells may grow as well. Stem cells have the capacity to divide indefinitely. It can be used as a repair system in the body. Thus, when a stem cell divides, the resulting cells have the ability to maintain stem cells, or the ability to become any type of cell in the body. Given a path, stem cells undertake a given task as if they were their ordinary purpose.

Stem cells are the main cells that can be trained to grow into any human cellular tissue such as (muscle, skin, brain etc). However, in a study of embryonic stem cells, to search stem cells from an embryo, a process called therapeutic cloning is needed in which human DNA is placed in unfertilized human eggs (destructively cloning humans). Within a few days, the same stem cells are produced as donors and there is no possibility of rejection once injected.

What is closely related to the federal funding problem of embryonic stem cell research is discussion about clonal regulation. Procedures involving therapeutic cloning are closely related to stem cell research, as one of its central uses involves the production of cloned embryos for extracting stem cells. At a certain level, public opinion is very clear in supporting reproductive cloning. (Here, in order to classify opinion polls, the President's Bioethics Committee's 2002 report used the strict term definition, reproductive cloning, "cloning of children" including all cloning techniques In public opinion polls conducted between 1993 and 2002, about 75% or more of respondents consistently - for a variety of purposes - are not commenting on reproductive cloning