Ethical Essay #1

Today's issue with cloning has provided many individuals with the thought of it's ethical implications. However, cloning has been around since the 1970's. The general public may not fully understand what cloning is. Through media hype, therapeutic cloning is the fore front of today's media due to the ethical and moral implications.
Therapeutic cloning is known by the more popular term " Embryo Cloning". The ethical issue here, is that human embryos are used in this type of research. The stem cell is harvested from the embryo in an attempt to understand human development. It is through this understanding, scientist can come up with a genetic treatment plan for fighting the disease process.
The problem with therapeutic cloning, is that, there are no simple "Black-White" answers. There hasn't been allot of success with this research. This raises the issue of taking a human embryo for the sake of science in a field that hasn't produced it's desired outcome.
If therapeutic cloning returns it's desired outcome, the chances of curing a disease greatly increases. We could cure Diabetes, Cancer, and so forth. This would be a giant step for civilization. On the flip side, at what point will a Human be cloned? Ever see the movie " The 6th Day"?
Therapeutic cloning provides us with the opportunity to improve mortality. If regulated, the benefits are great. On the flip-side, the potential to harm is great due to the low success rate of Therapeutics Cloning.