Looking at ethics, human cloning is fraught with anguish, over the effect of such activities upon those individuals that yield; those who are cloned.

It is not much different from the ethics attendant to germ-line therapy, which in its ultimate form concerns the wresting of genetic destiny from the sole hands of natural selection.  Indeed, we expect that upon sufficient acquisition of knowledge and skill, the genome of progeny can be altered such that development yields *better* humans.

Dear Joseph Dubrovkin, you have asked a very important question.

Human cloning- morally is not excepted and is not viable economically (My opinion).

Ethical/moral aspect:  Clones may be treated as second class citizens, which are only created as organ donors. If people will be cloned, and clones will hopefully receive the same rights as any other human being. Some ethicists fear the clones rights will be broken. Paul Billings, co-founder of Genebage was involved in drafting an international document that would ban reproductive cloning and genetic engineering of microbial limits. As arguments against human cloning, he quoted: "Nobody has the right to have a genetically related child, cloning is not safe, cloning is not legally required medical.

Economic aspect: Cloning technology is not yet well developed. It has a low fertility rate. The cloning of Dolly has been used 277 eggs, 30 began to divide, nine induced pregnancy, and only one survived to term.

The issue of human cloning brutally entered the public debate in 1997 when Dolly, a sheep, was created with a genotype identical to that of its mother by Scottish scientists who used somatic nuclear transfer. Immediately, a debate on the ethical issues associated with the prospects of human cloning arose.

There are many medical benefits and disadvantages of cloning and its technology. They include the following potential health benefits: - the possibility of cloning technology to learn to renew activity damaged tissues and grow new cells to replace them; - people's ability to create genetically identical to donor organs such as: kidney, bone marrow transplant; - the benefit of studying cell differentiation at the same time as the study and development of cloning; - sterile couples will be able to have children who will have the genetic information of the mother or the father's.

Potential risks or disadvantages: cloning creates identical genes. It is a process of replication of genetic constitution, so preventing gene diversity. Reducing the diversity of genes, weaken the ability to adapt. Cloning is also detrimental to the beauty that comes from diversity. While human cloning to allow genetic mixing with humans, also makes the reproduction characteristics likely to be undesirable. The cloning of human organs and their use for transplantation or cloning human beings must be taken into account technical and economic barriers. Cloning organs will be more efficient and cost? Cloning techniques will really reach the ordinary people? Further cloning of human rights and animals will play.

Regards

Hossain

Dear Mohammod Hossain!

Your opinion is very interesting. 

In this connection the issue of  " Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids"  is similar.

Joseph

Dear Joseph, I might mislead you. Morally I do not except human cloning. But I just wanted to say ad/disadvantage of human cloning in later part of my answer above.

I didn't want to support Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids (Soviet dictator Stalin's dream; Il'ya Ivanovich Ivanov tried and failed) or Humanzee by my answer above.

Like you I also want to say, "The relation of religion to the cloning is negative".

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Wishing you be happy.

Regards

Hossain