The Big Issue

Humanity is plagued with many moral issues each day. And when the announcement was made that a research facility in England had successfully cloned a sheep, many more questions arose. The overall question is, "To clone or not to clone?" Many groups worldwide, doctors, politicians, religious people, have been battling with this question.

Many doctors believe cloning is an advancement to help save more people's lives. Although specific organs or rare blood types have yet to be cloned and actually made available to the general medical community. Think about it: if someone desperately needed a liver transplant because they drank too much alcohol, with the aid of cloning technology, doctors would be able to clone that person's liver cells and produce a healthy, genetically matched liver, thus saving that patient's life. Cloning could revolutionize the medical industry!

Most religious people are on the down-side of cloning. Many say that cloning is messing with the natural order of things. That it's playing God (which ever one you believe in).

But I would beg to differ: despite how controversial it may seem, I am strongly for cloning, and I believe it has many important factors going for it.

Science is something we all take for granted. Be it a small jab at your local clinic or simple pain relief, right up to cancer care and organ transplantation- most, if not all of us, have come into contact with the wonder that is modern medicine. But with advanced technology come advanced problems: problems that aren't going to solve themselves: cloning is the next step that scientists are to take; cloning will improve the overall quality of science and life as scientists gain a deeper understanding of genetics.

Cloning experiments may lead to the creation of animal organs that can easily be accepted by humans. Cloning can help improve genetic developments. So next time you're at the doctors with a scraped knee or a bad headache, think about where you would be without your doctor; but then, where would your doctor be without his/her knowledge of modern medicine, a source of knowledge that is constantly required to be updated- and cloning is just the update that we need.

The technological and scientific benefits of cloning completely outweigh the cost and social problems of cloning. After all, few question the cost involved in sending man to space, so why question cloning? Perfection in cloning could allow for dramatic improvement and development in pregnancy and our fight against genetic illness such as cancer, an issue currently under the media's spotlight.

If cloning were allowed to be experimented scientists would come up of a way to clone body organs that are an exact replica of an individual body organ. This would prove very to be very beneficial to a person who may have lost a body organ such as a kidney, scientists could clone that particular organ for the individual, which, in the long run, would work better than a transplant organ.

Cloning will certainly expand the scope of medicine greatly, thus enhance the possibilities of conquering diseases such as the Parkinson's disease, cancer and other diseases that were earlier considered incurable

Cloning could be used to increase the population of endangered species of animals and thus save them from total extinction. This would help maintain a natural balance on the earth and have a continuous