Cloning is one of the most controversial issues at the moment. There are many misconceptions about cloning: carbon copies and instant clones. Cloning does not mean making a copy of a whole person, but it is making a copy of certain organs or cells of a human. I am AGAINST cloning because it is inhumane and it is against my religion.

The human cloning process is very inhumane. It is an assault on human dignity. Scientists have to extract an egg from a woman, and it also involves dividing a human embryo, when it is only a few days old that consists just a few cells. I say this is not right because the process requires destruction of the embryo. Embryos are babies, and this complicated process is basically killing a baby. I believe that cloning is a crime, and it should not be done anywhere in the world.

I am a Catholic and cloning is against my religion. Vatican has condemned Britain’s proposed plan to ease legislation that currently bans all forms of human cloning. I believe that cloning is yet another attempt to use technology to escape death or, if that is impossible, to defer it. It is an attempt by technology to steal from God the mystery of creation, so that we might laugh at eternity without experiencing death. Let’s think about it, if we are going to have cloning in our society, then everybody would have longer lives and we would be overpopulated. World religions promise us eternity, but a price. The price of eternity is --in spite of Mankind’s wishes--non-negotiable and not subject to change. The price of eternity is death.

I was pro-cloning at first, but after I learned more about it, it changed my perspective--I am against it and this will not change. Cloning should not be tolerated in any society.