Economic Impact of Cloning
Experimentation of cloning should not continue because of the inefficiency of the process. On the Human Genome Project Information website, it was said that, “Reproductive cloning is expensive and highly inefficient. More than 90% of cloning attempts fail to produce viable offspring. More than 100 nuclear transfer procedures could be required to produce one viable clone” (2009). This shows that the process of cloning takes too many attempts and with too high of a failure rate. Cloning takes up too much of our time and money, which can be used on more important matters such as schools, fighting in the middle east, and world hunger. In another article by the National Center for Policy Analysis, it said that, “Based on experiences with other reproductive technologies, some experts have predicted the cost of a human clone might be around $250,000” (2001). From this you can see that cloning is a very expensive process. Combined with the inefficiency of the process, the economic impact would be huge if many wealthy families started deciding to create clones of themselves. Even with the negative economic impact of cloning, some say that developing nations need it. Cloning can help produce animals that are able to survive harsh conditions, and therefor create a healthy food source for villages in inhospitable places. This could solve problems with these nations, but if they become too dependent on this food source it could be disastrous. If an environmental change would occur in the area that these animals could not defend against, they would all be killed off leaving the nation to starve. All in all, cloning should not be continued because of the negative economic impacts included with the process.