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Discuss the moral Issues of Cloning as argued by religionists

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1. Health risks from mutation of genes - an abnormal baby would be a nightmare come true. Huge risks of mutations - of a monster. Just look at what has happened in animal experiments. You can't always spot the mutations or developmental abnormalities by gene testing, nor by ultrasound scans, until after birth.

2. Emotional risks - child grows up knowing her mother is her sister, her grandmother is her mother. Every time her mother looks at her she is seeing herself growing up. Unbearable emotional pressures on a teenager trying to establish his or her identity. What happens to a marriage when the "father" sees his wife's clone grow up into the exact replica (by appearance) of the beautiful 18 year old he fell in love with 35 years ago? A sexual relationship would of course be with his wife's twin, no incest involved technically.

3. Risk of abuse of the technology. And it is not unknown for a mother to agree to have another child for the express purpose of providing much needed transplant material for the older child. Make no mistake: gene technology has the power to cure, feed, alter and destroy us.

4. Cloning treats humans as a means to an end, a commodity rather than an end in them. This is because genes are valued for their desired genome.

5. It is wrong to use a human in order to carry another’s desire i.e. creation of a child to fulfill parental wishes.

6. Cloning reduces people to genetic codes. It reduces a person’s dignity.

7. Created clones may be denied the rights of a full person-hood.

8. It may endanger certain human races as it may lead to production of a new master race due to genetic engineering codes.

9. It robes the clone his or her sense of uniqueness.

10. It may create a self identity problem especially those whose parents have died.

11. The work of creation of a new life belongs to God. We should not encroach God’s domain.

12. Clones break the connection between the family and children. Since clones come from one parent, it reduces the meaning of marriage, the purpose of the other ‘partner and a parent’.

13. Cloning gives some children some unfair advantage over others. This may lead to social stratification giving some people discrimination i.e. the genius and the less genius, talented, the less talented.

14. It may lead to a genetically homogeneous population which may be wiped by a single disease.

15. Some talents which are appropriate today may be inappropriate tomorrow since the world changes.

16. It may bring to an end the traditional line between animals and humans if some animals are bred to produce human organs.

Wilfykil answered the question on March 13, 2019 at 10:24

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