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Essay / Genetic Engineering and the Ethics of Genetic Engineering
The act of human cloning raises important socio-ethical implications in cases where cloning could change the shape of a family's structure by mixing parental roles within of a family with complex relationships. An example of this is the case where a DNA donor would be the genetic twin of the clone, rather than the mother, which would complicate the genetic and social relationships between mother and child as well as the relationships between other members of the family and the clone. The ethical questions we must ask ourselves in these situations, particularly one where a child is genetically bred to be a donor, are whether doctors and parents who produce another child do so exclusively for the purpose of acting as a donor. organ donation factory, and also the moral question. how the child would feel about the process. Designer babies produced to save the lives or health of their siblings or parents would know that they were created solely to satisfy a need and not out of love for their own existence. If the creation of these babies is allowed, it would appear that society views these new human beings as mere instruments for the good of others. This causes serious socio-political, economic, ethical and religious upheavals in societies which are only just beginning to realize and adopt the