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ATTACK OF THE CLONES?

Picture this: In a distant future your precious little child comes up to you and asks a question that might be hard for some to answer but to you it’s even harder. It is the question of ”who am I?” and you have to tell him, something you swore yourself to secrecy about a long time ago. You have to tell him that he is a duplicate of your maybe even more precious first child who passed away years ago. He is a clone.

Closer than you think

Wonder which one of these might be…?

That scenario may seem far away now but the further the medical science goes it can soon be reality. There are a lot of questions surrounding the subject of cloning for example: it might be medically possible but is it ethically possible? Doctors have rules to follow, like to never kill a person that wants to die. That’s a written rule. The question is if a woman, desperate for a child even though she has an infertile husband or their own selfless needs to reach higher goals in their careers makes it okay for them to manipulate with life in those ways. Is it fair to let your child always be compared to the other? What are the consequences of doing it?

Maybe your first child had a disease, unknowable and incurable that will take the life of your second child, what do you do then? Clone a new one? Maybe complications will occur and you get a handicapped child? Whose fault is it then? The doctor’s for agreeing to do it or the parents for wanting it? Is it anyone’s fault? And how will the child feel after not being what he or she was meant to be, a duplicate? Does the consequences change with every different situation? What would drive someone to choose a situation like cloning, when they can choose adoption or artificial insemination? Doctors want to bring happiness into people’s lives when they have lost someone, the question is if making a duplicate of a child, sibling or maybe even a parent can bring anyone happiness? Except for the people that it concerns of course, but even for them it might be too complicated in the long run. All the questions, maybe complications and surveillance to make sure that the child will be all right.

Humans cloned of extraterrestrials?

Just a few years ago Dolly came along and she was on every paper and every TV channel for quite some time, then they started thinking about babies and although most people were sceptical and some even despised the idea some mothers seemed to share a desire to jump on the fact of a possibility. But Dolly died in the beginning of this year, with the DNA of someone twice her age. What if that would happen to children being cloned with for example their mothers DNA? Today the process of cloning claims to have succeeded three times. A religious sect by the name of Clonaid has claimed to have cloned three babies, two girls and one boy but it has never been verified so people are still very sceptical especially when they say that humans really are cloned extraterrestrials. But was this really the way it was planned? That people should walk around with a duplicate that’s not your twin? What if you make a clone out of someone that’s healthy, won’t it be weird for them if they ran in to each other for example on the streets. Well that was a whole bunch of cons concerning cloning but there are some pros concerning it too. For example the further cloning goes there is a bigger possibility to replace damaged and missing cells that cause diseases like diabetes and leukaemia. Imagine the possibility to cure cancer a disease that cause God knows how many people to die, every year. It doesn’t matter how big or small your disease might be there is probably not a single one that would hesitate long before reaching for the opportunity to get rid of it. But will it have to be on other people’s behalf?