Cloning

I have a few questions for you reflecting your side of the argument: I would like to know what you classify as unknown fears, because my understanding is that the fears are known, and that is why we are afraid of them. These include massive expenses, and birth defects of the clones. In general, what are these "unknown fears" you are speaking of? How can you say cloning will improve the length of life, when studies show most clones die early? This type of biotechnology (Cloning) Is very dangerous and should NOT be permitted. One reason for this is that cloning is extremely dangerous. In reproductive cloning cases, the process has failed 95% of the time. Do we really want to take that risk on humans? Cloning could lead to many deaths of new organisms, such as miscarriages, and abortion. In mammals, reproductive cloning has resulted in more deaths than sexual reproduction. The organisms that do survive often have birth defects, and more health issues in development. Another issue with cloning that I would like to go into further detail about is cloning for agricultural purposes. I think that cloning animals will benefit in some ways, like producing the best animals for food purposes. But, it is only beneficial if it works. Dolly"s experiment took 277 tries to get the final production. Putting animals at that kind of risk is not beneficial, in fact it is animal cruelty. Also, animals that are produced are more likely to develop diseases, even if they are considered "the best of the herd." Now that I have mentioned all of these issues, do we really want to invest our taxes in the risky processes of cloning? In case you were wondering, the answer to that question is no. With the amount of risk factors and ethical issues, cloning is not something we should legalize. Do we really want to risk that on humans? There also stands the ethical issues with cloning. According to Pew-research.org, 78.4% of all Americans are Christian, and more are other religions. Over half of our country is religious. Many religious people believe that by cloning organisms, we are "playing God." They claim that since we are choosing the traits/organism cloned, we are making babies, and not reproducing them. Working alongside of God is not something Christians believe is right in this context. There are also many unknown theories about how the cloned child will be raised if we decide to clone humans. Clones won"t be "exactly" the same as their donor, the environmental factors change their personalities and actions. Will clones consider their parents their "parents?" Clones may be beneficial because Gays will have the chance to have a child, but there are so many theories about the issues of raising clones. Will it be different from raising other families? Why take the risk? Clones may also have issues with fitting in at school or in public. Many kids bully others who are different, or have a characteristic that makes them less superior compared to others. 93% of teenagers hear negative words being said directed to another kid in their schools. If kids get bullied for being gay, lesbian, or any other reason, what would stop them from getting bullied if they were a clone? What is the point of cloning organisms if there stands all of these risks?