Investigation: The Benefits of Cloning

Today we often hear about the many ethical issues about the topic on cloning. Many of Americans believe that cloning is not ethically correct. They believe that God can only create life and that if we tamper with it then we are playing God. However, many people are not aware of the benefits of cloning. For example as we get older, we tend to lose our brain cells and in some people, they lose their brain cells at a faster pace than others. Alzheimer's is a brain disorder that causes brain cells to be destroyed. For people with Alzheimer's, cloning can serve as a way where the damaged nerve cells can be replaced with embryonic stem cells that were grown to produce nerve cells. The best part of cloning is that, the person does not have to worry about rejection by their immune system. A lot of diseases and problems would be cured if human cloning was allowed.
Another great example where cloning would be useful is in babies with birth defects. If we use cloning we can prevent these infants from having that birth defect. For example if you are an older female who would like to have kids, instead of having the risk of having a child with down syndrome, cloning could be used to prevent the child from having down syndrome by altering that gene.
There are many people today who are in need of different transplants, but the problem with transplants are body rejections and there are long lists of people who are on donor lists. Cloning will solve both problems because the cloned body part will not be rejected because it has the same DNA as the original organism. For example, if a patient is in need of a liver transplant, the likelihood that the liver from a donor will be rejected by the patient is at a higher rate than that of a liver from the patient's stem cell.
As you can see, cloning has many benefits. If only cloning were allowed, many people would be cured of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Because cloning is not allowed on humans, scientists are not able to test and study the long term pros and cons of inserting stem cells into the body to regenerate specific organs or tissues or cells.