The Pros and Cons of Cloning: Is it Worth the Risk? With so much enhancement in medical science, cloning is slowly but surely looking like it could be in our near future. However, is it really an option that should be considered as a way to extend human life? Find out the pros and cons, and decide for yourself if cloning is worth the risks. Pro: Reproductive Cloning Much of it relates to helping human families gain children, but there is also a benefit for the animal world Parents with no eggs and sperm can create children that are genetically related. Same sex couples can have children without the use of donor sperm or donor eggs. The men would only require a surrogate to carry the clone until birth. Parents that have lost a child can have that child returned to them with a clone. Endangered animals can be cloned to save the species. These all bring hope to people eager for children but unable to have their own or adopt. It can also bring about the recreation of species that have long since died, allowing scientists to fully study the species as a living creature instead of simply looking at images or bones. Pro: Organ Replacement Many believe that cloning can be used to replace failing organs. This will diminish the waiting list for organ donations and allow more people to be saved. Not only that, but because the organ is, in fact, your own organ, there would be less chance of rejection. Your body would recognize the new organ as your own. Cloning could prove helpful in the research of genetics. Using cloning technologies, genetic researchers would have a better understanding of the composition of genes and the effects of genetic constituents on human traits. There is also the likely ability to alter genetic constituents in cloned humans, and cloning could help combat genetic diseases. Obtaining Desired Traits in Organisms