Friday, March 19, 2010

Cloning, who has the right to recreate life?

If you are a devoted catholic, you are raised knowing and thinking that God has and had and will always have the exclusive right to give and take life from this earth. I think that this applies for most Christian based religion. We also have the other side, which is the scientific one. The cloning topic has been around for 20 to 3o years already, and people change their minds every day. Is it really for us to say that God has the only exclusive right to create life? Or is it our responsibility to discover new ideas to carry on with the continuity of our existence? As virtue ethicists, I encourage individuals to take pick sides and think for themselves. You are raised with certain morals that will forever serve as catalyst in any action you make in the future. Let me transport you to a very compromising scenario. There is a young couple that has been in love forever. They go to through high school, church, college and most of their lives together. They eventually get married and are very much in love. They decide to have a baby, and while the mom was given birth she stays in a vegetable form. Medics tell the baby’s dad that the only possible way to recover her wife is to clone her, or keep her as a vegetable for the rest of her life. Is it morally correct to make a duplicate for someone you love and is the mother of your newborn?

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