What's the Scientific Impact?
Second of all, clones are more susceptible to disease. Scientists have found that clones have a higher risk of infection. On www.letters2president.org, Dakota G. wrote that “cloned animals tend to have more compromised immune function and higher rates of infection, tumor growth, and other disorders” (Dakota, 2011). This shows that the cloning process has not been perfected since clones are intended to be ‘perfect’ but still have faulty immune systems. If this could happen to clones of animals, think of what clones of humans would be like. Julie Kwon wrote an article on serendip.brynmawr.edu about the rights and wrongs of cloning that stated “cloning of humans will be a much more difficult task and a huge risk where a number of things can go wrong causing malformation and diseases in the human body” (Kwon, 2008). This shows that cloning humans should not be done since there are many risks of things going wrong. If scientist were to test this on humans, many deaths could occur because of diseases the clones could develop. A disease that could develop would be tumors and there is also a defect of shorter life spans. However, in that same article, Kwon also wrote that cloning could “cure diseases especially those related to genetics” (Kwon, 2008). They can use people who have no history of genetic diseases to create clones that will also have no disease. Although this is true, diseases could later develop in the clones from the environment. This vision would take a long time to achieve since the cloning process has not been perfected, and who knows how many deaths there would be before it is. Thus cloning should not be practiced because of the high risk of deaths from diseases.