This movie is not very accurate in its portrayal of the cloning process, but it
does however, fully express the emotions felt by the clones and the others
around them. The horizon for making a clone in the embryonic form is a very
relative possibility within the next five to ten years. Who knows though, pretty
soon we may be able to go out a choose the person that we want our child to look
identical to and create a clone for them. Although in this movie there were only
two clones created, the boys were supposed to have Hitlers genes and seemed to
carry his violent instincts. This statement proves to be true in the movie but
also lacks reality of everyday society in the way that not even a clone can be
identical to its other clones because environment plays a very large role.
Studies of how the cloned individuals would relate to one another are found with
the experiment of twins separated at birth and raised in two very different
environments. Because nature makes its own clones through the process of twins,
it is easy to research about how a clone might feel and how they would react to
having another clone around them. Environment plays a big part in determining
how a clone may turn out. Traci Watson writes, Identical genes don't produce
identical people, as anyone acquainted with identical twins can tell you. In
fact, twins are more alike than clones would be, since they have at least shared
the uterine environment, are usually raised in the same family, and so forth.
Parents could clone a second child who eerily resembled their first in
appearance, but all the evidence suggests the two would have very different
personalities. Twins separated at birth do sometimes share quirks of
personality, but such quirks in a cloned son or daughter would be haunting
reminders of the child who was lost--and the failure to re-create that child.
Even biologically, a clone would not be identical to the master copy. The
clone's cells, for example, would have energy-processing machinery that came
from the egg donor, not from the nucleus donor. But most of the physical
differences between originals and copies wouldn't be detectable without a
molecular-biology lab. The one possible exception is fertility.
Wilmut and his
coworkers are not sure that Dolly will be able to have lambs. They will try to
find out once she's old enough to breed. (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970310/10clon.htm)
Many parents have great concern in regards to having a child that has been
cloned. However, there are many excited parents looking forward to this
breakthrough in technology. By looking at the many different reasons for cloning
a child, one can better understand why it may seem appealing to parents. Cloning
from an already existing human will provide the opportunity for parents to pick
their ideal child. They will be able to pick out every aspect of their child and
make sure that it is perfect before they decide to have it. As Traci Watson
writes; Sure, and there are other situations where adults might be tempted to
clone themselves. For example, a couple in which the man is infertile might opt
to clone one of them rather than introduce an outsider's sperm. Or a single
woman might choose to clone herself rather than involve a man in any way. In
both cases, however, you would have adults raising children who are also their
twins--a situation ethically indistinguishable from the megalomaniac cloning
himself. On adult cloning, ethicists are more united in their discomfort. In
fact, the same commission that was divided on the issue of twins was unanimous
in its conclusion that cloning an adult's twin is bizarre ... narcissistic and
ethically impoverished. What's more, the commission argued that the phenomenon
would jeopardize our very sense of who's who in the world, especially in the
family. (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970310/10clon.htm) Whether or not
cloning happens with embryos or adults, various groups in society may react very
differently to it. For example, there are many religious groups that feel
cloning should not be considered for any reasons whatsoever. JefferY L. Sheler
states: Many of the ethical issues being raised about cloning are based in
theology. Concern for preserving human dignity and individual freedom, for
example, is deeply rooted in religious and biblical principles. But until last
week there had been surprisingly little theological discourse on the
implications of cloning per se.
