How is Cloning Not Ethical?
First of all, clones would not have the same rights as humans. In an article by Jay Johansen on www.pregnantpause.org, it states that “it is wrong to kill someone so that you can ‘harvest’ his body parts, whether that person is an adult, a child, or an embryo” (Johansen, 2001). The original purpose of creating clones was to use them as organ donors. They would have no right to live a proper life. Every human should have the rights they are given at birth, and that is to live. Another thing that is discussed a lot is that clones would not be individuals. In an article on library.thinkquest.org, it describes how “religious organizations feel that cloning puts too much power in the hands of humans and that cloning ignores the fact that each human has a unique soul” (Cloning, 2011). God made everyone special in their own way, but a clone wouldn’t have that. Clones would be exactly what the original person would be like, so that would also take away the individuality of the original person. However, it has been stated in an article by Jason Brown on www.humancloning.org that “genetic makeup does not play a big role in our individuality, but that our individuality comes from our environment” (Brown, 1998). But this is not true because even then the clone would still be similar in other ways to the original person. Therefore, cloning is not considered ethical because it would cause the death of many clones and also puts too much power in the hands of man.