Progrès et cloning - synthèse en anglais

In your opinion does cloaning mean progress 

In your opinion does cloaning mean progress ?

The cloning is by definition a human being engendered by a unique (only) parent, without sexuality (that is by vegetative or asexual reproduction) and consequently identical, from a genetic point of view, to his parent. But there is a difference to be made between the reproductive and therapeutic cloning. The first one aims at giving birth to an individual genetically identical to an other one, as it is the case for the sheep Dolly (first mammal cloned in July, 1996). Whereas the therapeutic cloning consists in cloning cells and in using them to recreate fabrics(tissues) or organs to look after sick.

Advances in medicine on the cloning share the public opinion, as for me, I find that, indeed, the cloning is a sign of progress. Thanks to this process, there would be a way to look after a disease. Today to be cured of the type I diabetes, it is necessary to have a transplant of the sick organ: the pancreas. The scientists hope they can thus look after this disease thanks to the therapeutic cloning, that is by practising an autograft which would cancel the risks of rejections. It is the advantage of the therapeutic clone as regards the progress.

But the progress has its limits. First of all a law establishes on August 6th, 2004, forbidden the human reproductive cloning in France. Furthermore, human reproductive cloning undermines notions own family, inheritance, paternity / maternity, sexual reproduction ... Within the framework of a therapeutic application of the "reproductive" said cloning, the child born to save his sick donor would be seen as a " reservoir of organs ", or "baby-medicine". In these cases, the child is not necessarily wished as such, the same problem would settle if clones had to serve for the scientific research. They would then be predestined to be guinea pigs, born in the only purpose to serve the science.

Finally the cloning is apparently synonymic of progress but it is necessary to put for barriers in the advance of the progress.

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