Human Cloning Educational Questions
Human cloning has the potential to change the world, but how? Will it be for the good? The debate about human cloning is shrouded in myths and misconceptions, and not everyone understands the benefits human cloning offers. These questions will help you move past the myths and explore both the positive potential of human cloning and its dark side.
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When You Think of "Clone," What Comes to Mind?
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This question will help open up discussions about what cloning is. It allows educators to dispel common myths about human cloning.
How Could Human Cloning Be Used Medically?
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Discussions derived from this question could include the ability to manufacture organs to replace failed organs, thereby saving lives, or the possibility of manipulating genes so people no longer get sick.
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What Do You Think of Human Cloning Allowing Infertile Couples to Have Children?
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Infertility is one of the most common problems targeted by human cloning advocates. If most sperm and eggs are unhealthy, cloning the rare healthy sperm and eggs could encourage conception. Discussion may consider the debate about adopting clones or cloning children to produce siblings.
If Human Cloning Enabled Us to Become Immortal, Would You Support It?
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This question opens up discussion about whether it is desirable or even moral to use cloning as a means of living forever.
What Might Be the Consequences of Uninhibited Human Cloning?
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This discussion takes a turn from the individual's personal view of cloning as a means of achieving immortality to a broader look at the changes it would cause in society. Topics may include cloning to aid medical research, cloning to live out other potential life paths, cloning to commit crimes or cloning to maintain dictatorships that potentially could last forever.
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