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Cloning
by Hiroyuki Hashimoto
In this essay I present my research on cloning. I am interested in this technique because I heard that the first test tube baby is as old as I am, so I hope to know about him or her and the cloning technique and its problems. I am going to cover three main points. I want to explore who the first test tube person is, and what cloning's problems and benefits are. I also hope to illuminate what the cloning techniques contribute to. First I will show you the first test tube baby, Louise Brown's profile, then I will cover problems and benefits of the cloning techniques, and finally I will demonstrate the cloning contribution.
In any study of cloning, it is important to know the background details. The first test tube person, Louise Brown became 26 years old this year. She looks like a normal lady. There have been over a million test tube babies born before. Though, we found they have had some problems in delivering nowadays.
What are the causes of the cloning problems? I think it is caused by the lack of government involvement that led to a funding vacuum, into which rushed entrepreneurial scientists. The effects are that the cloning techniques made exciting progress, but people have neglected both ethical and medical problems. This is because no one tried to step on the brake in effect.
It is safe to say that the cloning is similar to organ transplants because we can replace healthy organs if they agree with us. However the cloning is different from organ transplants by thinking about sources because we obtain organs from others when we try to transplant, but your own body provides us with your organs if you use cloning technique.
Who is the first test tube baby? I will show you the baby is Louise Brown. According to the Scientific American, June 2003, the first test tube baby is Louise Brown, who was born on the 25th of July, 1978. She went to a nursery school in the west of England. I am glad to hear that she is fine.
What are cloning's physical problems and benefits? I will tell you the problems and benefits. I think both of them are concerned with conception because the cloning intervenes in the mystery of nativity. According to the Scientific American, June 2003, we can give birth to genetically unique humans, and after their birth, they grow as ordinary humans. When they become mothers, they can have problems like multiple births, low birth weights babies, and IVF babies. I think they have problems when they deliver.
I have shown problems and benefits of the cloning, now I will cover cloning's contribution. According to "How One Clone Leads to Another (Op-Ed)", the 24th of January, 2003 by Leon R. Kass, Early Stem (ES) cells help us when we make a study of the cloning techniques, therefore I think we will have a big chance to be treated with the techniques because the cells are called utility cells, but I also bet that the cloning techniques now cannot provide us with enough profits because we can make some parts of body cells. We can mainly produce nerve cells, and blood vessels, according to the monograph, and skin cells, according to my home doctor. Then, I suppose it will be of help to burns patients because they would lose their organs if they burned their body parts crucially.
In brief I have talked about Louise Brown, shown the benefits and problems that came from a lack of government, and the contributions of cloning technique. The situation might improve if not only local governments, but also global ones regulate the technique with laws and rules. It is fair to say that ethical education is also effective. However the situation might deteriorate if governments do not touch the problem and people try to develop the technique without qualms. Certainly, the advance of civilization comes from replacement. For example, you replace horses with engines, that means you make an automobile. If you use a roll of film in return for hand painting, that means you develop a camera. However, I hope to appeal that when you try to replace the mother's body with test tubes you need to tread warily. Rationalism of lives can give rise to punishment by Heaven like BSE.
I think there are certainly many ethical and medical problems with the technique but some doctors say they will form any organs that don't have side effects. I believe in the future we will be administered perfect treatment because donated organs will come from our own bodies.
Bibliography of References:
Leon R. Kass. (January, 2003) How One Clone Leads to Another
Scientific American (June, 2003) Pandora's Baby
Dr. Tobe Aya (2004) Personal Communication
