Advantages and disadvantages of Therapeutic Cloning

One of the advantages of Therapeutic cloning is its availability since the only requirement would be the patients own cell. Patients who need Organ transplant surgeries urgently wouldn’t have to wait for an organ donor, they can just grow one as needed. There will also be no fear of organ rejection by the patient because it’s the patients own DNA. And especially for kidney transplant patients, they wouldn’t have to bear excessive pain and the procedure wouldn’t shorten their life span. The patient won’t have to be on medication regarding their organ transplant whereas if the organ was from a donor the patient would have been on medication for the rest of their lives.

One of the disadvantages for Therapeutic Cloning is the limitation of adult cells. Procedures that use Adult Cells usually corrupt in the process and Embryonic Cells have been found to be more flexible. Stem cells aren’t very stable, there is always a chance that the cell could mutate during the procedure and cause organ rejection or even develop a tumour. Another disadvantage is that we don’t have enough eggs to cure everyone as each procedure requires around a hundred eggs (depending on the organ). And lastly, during the process of extracting stem cells, the embryo is killed. Pro-life supporters believe this is murder and to kill one person to cure another can not be justified.