HumanCloningIsWrongI’msuremanyofyouhaveseenStarWarsJurassicParkMultiplicityormanyoftheothermoviesthatdescribecloning.Mostofwhatyouseeinthesemoviesisfalse.Whatyoudon’tknowisthatcloningcouldb
HumanCloningIsWrong
I’msuremanyofyouhaveseenStarWarsJurassicParkMultiplicityormanyoftheothermoviesthatdescribecloning.Mostofwhatyouseeinthesemoviesisfalse.Whatyoudon’tknowisthatcloningcouldbedangeroustothecloneandtooursocietyasawhole.It’simmoraltohaveahumanclone.
Whataboutidentity?Humansarepromisedtherighttotheirownpersonality.Whatwouldhappenifweignorethoserightsbygivingthemsomeoneelse’sgeneticidentity?Truepersonalityisnotfixedinsomeone’sgenesbuttheclonewouldshareanyphysicalappearanceorgeneticfaultofthecloned.
Alsothereisalargepowerstrugglehere.Cloningmeansadegreeofpowerandcontroloveranotherperson’sphysicalidentityandthatignorestheirrightsandtheironlypersonality.Thepersondoingthecloningwouldhavemorepowerthananyparentwouldhave.
Cloningwouldalsodealwithkillingembryos（胚胎）.YoumightnothaveknownbutDollythesheepthatwasclonedin1996wasoneofover200sheepembryosandherswastheonlyembryothatsurvived.Therestdiedorwerethrownaway.Imagineifthefailureratewasthathighwhenwestartedtoclonehumans.Morethan200embryosthestartof200humanbeingswoulddieforthesakeofjustoneembryothatwouldhavethesameDNAassomeoneelse.
Cloningsomeoneatthispresenttimewouldbeextremelydangeroustothebirthmotherandtheclone.Instudiesdoneoncows4outof12birthmothersdied.ThereisaveryhighfailureratewhichisshowedinthecloningofDolly.Evenifyouhadafewgoodembryosfailureshavebeennoticeableinanimaltests.
Soshouldweworkaheadintheworldofcloning?Isayno.Therisksaregreaterthanthebenefits.It’sdangeroustothecloneandtothebirthmother.Wewouldbekillinghumanlivesintheprocess.Itwouldalsobeaviolation（侵害）oftheclone’srighttoitsowngeneticidentityandpersonality.
1．Theauthorthinkshumancloningiswrongmainlyfor_________reasons.
A．2 B．3 C．4 D．5
2．Accordingtothearticlewhatistheauthor’sopinionaboutidentity?
A．Cloningitselfgivesparentsgreatpoweroveridentity.
B．People’sidentityiscompletelydetermi