Representation of Cloning in the Media

Discussions on human cloning have been described in the media as a moral argument since the cloned sheep Dolly was born in the media. When scientists announced clones of adult sheep, the public also heard that it is possible to create human clones. This unprecedented media coverage of feat is about the ethics of the program itself, not about the procedure used by the program itself. The focus of media coverage is on the ethical issues of cloning, its social, religious and physiological significance, and the motivation behind it.

Cloning is the first step. The genetic manipulation of cloned animals is the future direction of the cloned frontier. It is here that people commonly expressed concern and became media headline news. Agriculture and Pharmaceutical: In addition to sustaining the best characteristics, farm animals can also be used as important proteins of "machines" for mass production. Polly is a genetically modified clone of lamb. She can produce milk containing protein IX - a protein lacking haemophilia

On 23 February 1997 the news from the press indicated that the first use of adult sheep cells successfully cloned the mammal. "Dolly of a seven-month old sheep showed the media, she was the first large cloned animal using another adult DNA" (Robinson). Since then, scientists from all over the world began making clones of mammals such as mice and cows. However, animals are not the only species cloned. On December 14, 1998, researchers at the Kyeonghee University fertility treatment clinic in South Korea announced that they successfully made clones. Scientists Kim Seungbo and Lee Bo-young removed ova from women, removed DNA, and inserted somatic cells from the same 30-year old female. In their report, "When the test tube embryo is returned to the uterus normally and then develops into the fetus, the division into the fourth cell phase, embryonic development phase can be confirmed." (Robinson)

Last summer, coverage of the first clone of human embryos was covered. Last year when the Chicago physicist Richard Rim announced plans to create a clone of someone, an exciting discussion about the prospect of creating human clones first appeared. Seeds recommend removing DNA from female eggs, exchanging with cloned human genetic material, initiating embryonic development under laboratory conditions, and placing the resulting embryos in the female uterus . Seed 's proposal attracted many media attention, but most of it is negative. President Clinton quickly prompted federal law again and prohibited public and private cloning. "At the individual level, I believe that human cloning has attracted a great deal of attention from beliefs and concepts of human beings," he said at the country's radio address. (In June 1997, the President 's National Bioethics Advisory Committee announced a report that concluded that humans should not be tried at this time.)