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Blog Title: Q2, Week 4 Critical Reading Passage - Should Human Cloning Be Allowed?

Assignment:
*** Read the following passage.
*** Answer the questions at the bottom of the passage. Minimum of FIVE sentences. You DO NOT have to use your vocabulary words (you'll do that one tomorrow -- this is just your free response).

Should human cloning be allowed?

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically equates to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have evaluated the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different context, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab. Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this context, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they equate that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Evaluate the consequences of cloning people and consider whether clones would have the same rights as “non-cloned” people. What if people decided to clone their babies from famous people? How might clones be different from the original person? Would you want to clone yourself?