Angel J. Ferreiro
To develop this topic, We will try to perform a
concise and methodical, however not extensive,
analysis of the implications under different points
of view.
A. Economical: From the available information,
it can be deducted that the cloning procedure is
far from a cheap one. Specialized techniques, labs
and personnel are required. Cloning can not be
regarded as a "fertility" technique at all, because
it doesn't pursue helping to the fertility of a
couple, woman or man, but it also pursues something
else. Therefore it implies that somebody is going
to expend a lot of money to perform this special
and expensive procedure with no justification at
all. There is no health or life improving needs
fulfilled by making a clone of you, that cannot be
done by other clinical procedures, except for the
selfish idea of bringing a baby identical to you.
This is definitely injustified, specially if we
consider that there is a lot of people dying of
hunger, undernourishing, diseases, and different
other ailments in the world. Just consider, that
eventhough a more widely accepted procedure, in
vitro fertilization is, in some way, still selfish.
A person/couple with a fertility problem expends considerable
amounts of money to force having their own-blood
baby, when many orphan kids are just hoping for an
adoptime home.
On the other hand, many families that have been
blessed with their own babies, still have the heart
to take an additional one in adoption.
B. Social: Just consider the social life of the
cloned kids. How will it feel to walk through your
life been seen like you are a phenomenon?. Just the
mere fact to be referred to as a "clone", implies
that your are being discriminated. What identity
problems will cloned people develop?. Isn't it a
deprivation of human natural liberty to be denied
your own nature-given appearance?. It's just enough
to study the many identity and psychology problems
that normal twins sometimes develop, to foresee the
magnitude of the possible traumas a child will have
when he understands what s/he is, just a twin of
his father, or mother. Would you want this to
happen to your beloved son?. Does satisfying some
personal or scientific ego justify doing this to a
human being?.
On the family side, We have not even glanced at
the whole picture. Let's just take the most simple
situation of a married couple. What entitles a
couple to choose if a child will be identical to
the father, or to the mother? What family divisions
will raise when your own family discovers that you
let their expected grandson to be just a copy of
your husband or wife?
Once again, what is the need and the
justification for all this trouble?
Jumping a little bit to the legal aspects, how
are going cases of child custody, inheritance,
etc. be further complicated in the hypothetical
case that a clone is involved.
D. Human Life: From the available information.
Many experiments are necessary to have a succesful
cloning procedure. Has somebody determined how many
completelly fertilized and growing human embryos
are destroyed until the procedure is finally
succesfull. This is "In-vitro" abortion. Or
basically In-series destruction of human life in
the Lab.
We consider that most people, now a days,
understand that a fertilized human embryo is an
alive human being, and that we don't have any right
to interfere with their life and development, as
this will be basically killing that life, and in
the case of a human being it is usually known as
murder.
Under this perspective, when a cloning is
performed, the genetic material of the original
embryo is replaced, whatever the original human
embryo was, it is not anymore. The person it was
going to be, is not anymore. Although the embryo
didn't die, that person will not ever, never be
born. Isn't this murder under some indetermined
degree?
D. Scientific: There is no justification that
cloning a human being is necessary to bring any
significative advances to Medicine or Biology.
C. Religious and Ethical: Many people mention
these aspects, but nobody explain. The problems we
have mentioned above are enough justifications to
regard the cloning procedure as unethical, and even
more. It is almost a crime. It's also extremely
unethical for a doctor to take advantage of the
fact that the law still doesn't regulate such
experiments to attempt them, even though they are
plagued with negative consequences rather than
benefits. It reflects an inmense lack of common
sense. It has even said that if the procedure is
banned in the US. they will attempt it somewhere
else.
It's an explicit hiding from the law, but bear
in mind you can never hide from Divine Law.
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