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Group members
Roxana Donca, Noemi Deak, Halmagyi Melinda

Roles
Here are the descriptions of your roles and resources to perform your tasks. Write down the name of the group member who takes each role. Insert your arguments in the space provided (about 100 words).

**SCIENTIST **
Halmagyi Melinda

Your task is to collect, analyze and evaluate information to generate your own view point and argument on whether or not humans should be cloned and why. To do this, you need to be prepared to answer such questions as the following to clarify and testify your argument: 1) What are the benefits of cloning? 2) What are the potential benefits of human cloning? 3) What are the risks of cloning? 4) What are the potential risks of human cloning? 5) Do the benefits outnumber the risks? Why? 6) What are the new research and experiments being done currently?


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Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks or embryonic stem cells can be grown to produce organs or tissues to repair or replace the damaged ones.It also can be used on infetile couples in order to be able to have children,reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, tay-sachs disease, liver an kidney failure, leukemia,cancer, deffective genes, cystic fibrosis and for genetic disease (Down´s syndrome). The benefits of cloning humans could be a supply of donor organs, eradicate genetic diseases, allow infertile couples to reproduce and cloning dead people. One of the risks of cloning is that reproductive cloning is highly inefficient and very expensive.When a clone is lucky enough to survive birth it generally lives a short and unhealthy life. The potential risks of human cloning are that human cloning would be cruel because the process may result in a large number of miscarrieges and deformities before a human could be successfully cloned. In my opinion the benefits of cloning outnumber the risks of it if we look from the medical point of view, in order to prevent a lot of diseases and to help the humans to recover their health. The new researches and experiments that were done recently in the cloning area: - the embryo from the skin cell avoids the pitfalls of previous research; these specific stem cellsare considered the "gold"standardof stem cells because all of the body´s tissues are produces from this stem cells. - Mice have been successfully cloned from another mouse which died 16 years ago, whose intact body was frozen at minus 20 degrees centigrade (1st November 2008). 

Deak Noemi
 * ETHICIST**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As an ethicist, your task is to explore, examine, and evaluate your findings on the issue and present your argument on whether or not humans should be cloned and why/why not. Get prepared to answer such questions as the following while you are doing your task: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) What are the potential benefits of human cloning? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) What are the potential risks of human cloning? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) Do we need to clone humans? Why/Why not? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4) Who should decide to allow or ban human cloning? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5) What should be the ethical standards?


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**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LEGISLATOR **
Donca Roxana

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a legislator, you are responsible for exploring the policies, laws and regulations regarding human cloning. You need to examine, analyze and evaluate your findings to generate your argument and to position yourself in the debate. Try to answer the following questions while carrying out your task: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) What are the current policies, laws and regulations regarding human cloning? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) Should human cloning be banned or allowed? What should be the role of the governments? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) Is there a potential need to control and direct research and experiment on cloning? Who should hold this power? Why?


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