As scientists plow ahead in to the fields of new discovery they find that some discoveries may be more destructive than constructive to today’s world. The theory of cloning becomes a reality with the forthcoming of dolly the sheep. The possible cures for many currently incurable diseases have their hopes in stem cell research because of their ability to develop in to practically all cell types in the early stages. Scientists have many different types of cells derived from stem cells reproducing them like bacteria in a Petri dish.

Research on embryonic stem cells has the potential to be the key to finding a cure for many of today’s common diseases. Embryonic research takes an Embryo, an unborn child, and separates the stem cells from it. Even “The initial stem cell researcher was at first reluctant to begin his research, fearing it might be use for human cloning” (Bush 216). Though great things can come from this field of science they would come at a great cost, the life of the unborn, in an attempt to save the life of the living. George W. Bush concludes that “we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines, where the life and death choice has already been made” (Bush 216-217). He is referring to the sixty stem cell lines that have already been harvested and reproduced.

Research on the cloning of humans has been speculated on for quite a while as a fanciful thought but with the creation of dolly it has come more and more into focus. If human cloning proved to be possible they would probably be used for creating perfect transplant matches. With the cloning of humans individuality and uniqueness is lost because you are not the only possible you any more. Your DNA could be taken and an exact DNA replica of you is born. It is said that “literary treatments of cloning inform us that cloning is an evolutionary dead end than can only replicate what already exists but cannot improve it” (Annas 112). Not only does this create a human created in stand still so it does not evolve into a more knowledgeable being, it also has a frivolous end in mind. When researchers had cloned dolly she was “the sole survivor of 227 cloned embryos (or “fused couplets)” (Annas 112).

I do not think that either research on human cloning or harvesting of embryonic stem cells should be continued. I do not think that it is right to harvest more embryonic stem cells because lives are ended so we can make lives of people that were given the chance to live better. I do not see why anyone should be given the right to govern over the lives of those who cannot defend themselves. Wilmut is portrayed as “‘Dolly’s laboratory father’” just like Frankenstein was the creatures father, what intrigues me is that Frankenstein’s creatures says “‘I ought to be thy Adam’” (Annas 112). Who are we to be God and create that which we would have dominion over? At the core f the debate of whether or not cloning should be permitted is “that clones must be accorded the same human rights as persons that we grant any other human; and that personal identity, human dignity, and parental responsibility” (Annas 112). Why should replicas of humans have rights before they are created but the natural child has none?