Psychology

Cloning is the creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another or clones is defined as genetically produced individuals from a single parent (What is Cloning 2010). Cloning is associated with various psychological effects that can endanger the normal survival of the clones. No one actually knows what the effects of the clones would be to the human identity and relationships of creating someone who is the twin of the father or the mother, but born in a different generation and environment.

The other question that arises is whether the clone would feel that he or she was just a copy of someone else who had already existed and not really of himself or herself. Failure to understand some of these dilemmas among others, such as the clones relationship with the person they were cloned from and the inability to predict the assurance of proper answers to this questions can give us a clear indication as to why cloning should completely be done away with. Therefore, humans should not be cloned because this activity is ethically and morally wrong considering the significant incident of death and birth defects in cloned animals.

Cloning human beings is carrying out a lifelong experiment, which may result in adverse physical and psychological effects on the individual and any defects are onto the offspring (Lambrianides n.d.).

Cloning also leads to premature aging that is explained based on the donor cells being old and containing DNA materials with short telomeres. It also puts children at risk of being born with deformities, and the mothers life at risk due to major abnormalities of the placenta. These anomalies happen because the cells used to clone the embryo will be taken from one of the possible parents. These mature stem cells preserve the memory of whether they were a muscle or skin meaning that they do not develop and behave in the way stem cells in a placenta usually do. In conclusion, cloning, be it therapeutic or reproductive in nature is unacceptable and should not be done to human beings.