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Scientists now believe they are becoming closer and closer to producing a procedure that will assist in producing cloned human embryos. The new breakthrough has the potential to turn "human eggs into cloned embryos." This would be the first time that scientists have been able to create viewable cloned embryos from a primate that's an adult, for which in this comes from a male rhesus macaque monkey that's ten years old already. With this new technique it has the potential to produce cloned human embryos that could be used for research.
However, with 277 attempts in itself to produce "Dolly" the sheep, the "first clone of an adult mammal," there is no evidence yet that this new technique will for sure produce at all, or will come to term.
Although the article did not discuss the ethical implications of what this could mean for science, I believe it's important to mention that our earth is already over-populated. Is it ethical to produce a human embryo in the first place when there are millions of people around the world going hungry and suffering? Even though many people could argue that cloning isn't that different in comparison to naturally producing (in regards to adding more people in the world), and that people should have the right to produce if they want, I cannot help but wonder if this will always be like this. Will we forever think that it's everyone's right to produce, when our resources are significantly depleting, and we already cannot manage to feed everyone on our earth as it is? The world is beyond it's capacity already. It's true that everyone is entitled to their own rights, including producing, but the real question is whether this is ethical to continue. Maybe China's one child rule should be considered in other places throughout the world. If we cannot afford to take care of the people populated on our earth now, is it ethical to be trying to produce human clones? I think not.
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