Holding Off on Human Cloning

In February 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmut of Scotland and his scientific team announced that she succeeded in cloning sheep. This shocked the world and caused international debate. Since Dolly's invention, scientists have been faced with emergency technology to clone humans. This raises questions about what it means to humans and what restrictions should be imposed on scientific research. Because scientists have the advantage of treatment of disease and regeneration of damaged organs and tissues, it is necessary to use a method of cloning individual human cells.

Articles of Washington Post. Dione Jr. entitled "Postponement of Cloning" indicates that cloned humans should be interrupted before it begins. The first history of cloning was through Scotland's sheep called Dolly. This is not an easy task. Early cloning attempts to produce the same sheep as Dolly all failed. In other words, duplications of some sheep were genetically defective and needed to be "thrown away" (Dione Jr.). Clearly, cloning the first person is not an easy task, it may be more difficult than Dolly. The initial failure is a genetically defective human body model. These tragic and innocent people may have only four hands and one eye.

Dolly 's debut has brought practical value and climate of ethics about cloning, including the possibility of human cloning. Currently, more than 40 countries including the UK, France, Germany, Japan officially prohibit human cloning. There are no legal prohibitions in other countries including the United States and China. Scientists have cloned animals other than dolly, such as dogs, pigs, cows, horses, cats, but no one has cloned humans. Part of the reason is that cloning causes a serious genetic error which can lead to early painful death. At the same time, laboratories in various countries succeeded in cloning human embryos to produce stem cells that can be used for medical treatment.