Recently, cloning has stepped into the limelight. Although cloning of plants from adult plant cells has been practiced for many years, the success in the cloning of a sheep has warranted this fresh interest. what are the implications of continued research into cloning?

Recently, cloning has stepped into the limelight. Although cloning of plants from adult plant cells has been practiced for many years, the success in the cloning of a sheep has warranted this fresh interest. what are the implications of continued research into cloning?

Once again we are faced with a hotly debated issue like many others in the past. With the announcement of the success in the cloning of a sheep, the immediate possibility was human cloning have much to argue about the issue.

Continued research into cloning will inevitably meet with failures and setbacks and very likely involve the loss of human life in the form of cells and embryos. We believe that human life is sacred and no one has the right to toy with another's life. However, human cloning threatened this belief because cloning will involve experimenting with human life.

Another frightening implication we must also consider. Would a cloned human being free? Decisions would have to be made as to whether the cloning laboratory owns him and bears responsibility towards him as a parent does to his child. Who would take care of these people if the scientific community refuses to?

However, from cloning experiments we would discover how and whether genes define intelligence, skills and even artistic and literary talent. As a result, we would be able to see if one's success in life is simply the luck or if there is any truth behind the adage 'Practice makes perfect'.

To conclude, though human cloning is promising to uncover the truth of many unanswered questions. It has far-reaching influence in human identity. There should, therefore, be more deliberations on this issue and i think research into human cloning should not be supported for the sake of natural human identity.