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56. Organ transplantation and cloning: moral issues
During the XNUMXth century, people faced the consequences of seemingly outstanding scientific and technological achievements. The same thing happened with organ transplantation, cloning. On the one hand, thanks to organ transplantation, doctors were able to save hundreds of lives of hopeless patients and prolong their lives. But at what cost? One day people will find ways to deal with both rejection and the side effects of medications. But moral and religious problems remain.
It is unlikely that the idea of transplanting the organ of a newly deceased Christian could have come to mind before. Thus, the peace of the deceased person is disturbed. And this can already be considered an outrage, since the desire to maintain physical integrity even after death is characteristic of every person. In addition, society faced another problem - the trade in human organs.
Term "clone" means "twig", "escape". Another thing is animal cloning!
Already during experiments on animals, scientists encountered negative side effects.
As for human cloning, an ethical question immediately arose. This problem is widely discussed by the public. The following are often put forward arguments against cloning.
1. The formation of a person as a person is determined not so much by biological heredity as by family, social and cultural environment. And almost all religious traditions indicate that the birth of a person, his birth is determined by God, and conception should occur naturally! What if unscrupulous people want to clone themselves? What will happen then?
2. People do not have the moral right to create copies of their own kind. Every child born must be treated as a person, not a copy of another person!
3. When cloned, a person is a commodity, human trafficking is a criminal area.
4. It is not permissible to deprive any person of life, a ban should be introduced on experiments with human embryos.
5. Scientists should not strive to "improve" human genes, as there are no criteria for an "ideal person".
6. Why deprive nature of genetic diversity?
7. Вдруг клон, копия окажется уродом?
Выдвигаются также и positive aspects of cloning.
1. Therapeutic cloning results in the formation of embryonic stem cells that are identical to those of the donor. They can be used in the treatment of many diseases.
2. Reproductive cloning creates a clone of the donor. It can help infertile couples to have a child - a copy of one of the parents.
3. The creation of children with a planned genotype will allow us to multiply brilliant people in the laboratory.
Today, humanity is at a crossroads: whether to continue work on cloning or to stop research.
Author: Zubanova S.G.
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