Update #2: Paraphrasing

Ethical and Social Implication of Reproductive Cloning

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Cloning has given rise to a massive ethical debate, including reports by bioethics committees and many books and articles. Due to lack of space, we have not attempted here to discuss the religious arguments about cloning. There are few enthusiastic advocates of cloning, but a number of bioethicists have tried to show that popular response, and even the more sophisticated philosophical arguments against cloning are naïve, and cannot be sustained. These commentators have argues that people’s opposition to cloning is a ‘yuk reaction’, which cannot stand up to reasoned argument. In a similar, defensive way, liberals have argued that while cloning may not be very desirable, we should not stop other people from doing it, because that would interfere with freedom. In this section, we will examine some of the key ethical arguments and popular responses, such as those about ‘playing God’. We will try to show that popular responses, although they are sometimes overstated, are valid and are based on defending important values.

The social issues of cloning tend to focus on human clones in terms of both availability of cloning technology and integration of clones into society. Reproductive cloning raises the question of cost and who should have access. However, the biggest social argument is that cloning negates a person’s right to individuality and ignores the potential psychological effects of such a parentless and de-individualized identity.

Key Ideas:

• Cloning is a major topic ethically and socially. 
• Reproductive cloning is huge when it comes to an ethical debate. 
• There are only a few supporters of cloning, however, numerous bioethicists have tried to explain that arguments against cloning are immature and should not be continued. 
• Liberals have argued that cloning should not be stopped towards the people that are eager to do it. 
• Socially, reproductive cloning disables a person’s right to uniqueness and ignores the potential psychological effects of such a parentless and de-modified character.

Source in MLA:

• Alert, Human Genetics. "Missed Opportunity to Ban Reproductive Cloning." Nature Cell Biology 7.4 (2005): 323. Reproductive Cloning. Jan. 2004. Web. 15 Oct. 2014.
• Tiffany Andras. "The Ethical, Social & Legal Issues of Cloning Animals & Humans." People. Demand Media, n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2014

Cloning: An Ethical Issue

This entertaining video informs two people having an argument about the benefits and limitations of reproductive cloning. They have included the ethical issues on this certain topic.

Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edf7i2ORoVY

Paraphrasing:

There has been an ethical and social problem about the undertakings of reproductive cloning. Ethically, Some has argued that it is sinful by ‘playing God’, according to bioethicists; arguments in contradiction of cloning are unworldly and should not be prolonged. However, liberals disagreed by saying that people should not be stopped when wanting to clone because it will affect their freedom. Socially, reproductive cloning has disabled a person’s entitlement to independence and disregards the possibility of the psychological effects of such a parentless and de-adapted nature.