Genetic Engineering
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- Created on: 14-05-14 10:30
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- Genetic engineering, including Cloning
- The Nature
- Genetic engineering in medical issues is using techniques of gene development to find cures or prevention for disease and disabilities in humans
- recently cloning processes have been used to grow healthy cells to replace the diseased ones
- this involves creating stem cells either from embryos produced for IVF but not used, or from adult bone marrow or blood
- non religious views
- for: it offers the prospect of cures for currently incurable diseases
- for: being done in other countries
- for: cloning using animal eggs does not involve loss of human life
- for: genetic research is closely monitored by the law, but has vast potential benefits
- against: too little info about long term consequences
- against: if anything were to go wrong it would be permanent
- against: it treats the human body as no different from plants
- Christians views
- Some support it because:
- Jesus showed that Christians should do all they can to cure disease
- Finding genetic cures is no different from finding drug cures
- Embryos are not foetuses until the are 14 days old
- Others support it only if it does not involve the use of embryos:
- life begins at the moment of conception whether in a womb or test tube and killing is wrong
- Embryos have been produced by un-Chrisitan means
- Some are against it because:
- they believe that God creates the genetic make-up of each person at conception and people have no right to interfere with this
- it is trying to play with God and this is a sin
- it is wrong to try to make Earth perfect; only heaven is perfect
- Some support it because:
- The Nature
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