One day you’re a vibrant, healthy young individual. The next day, you find out you have a rare, currently untreatable, disease. You are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that causes degeneration throughout the brain and spinal cord. This disease is generally characterized by muscle weakness, but leaves mental and ocular sharpness intact, while the remainder of the body grows weaker and weaker. Currently, as above stated, there is no cure for this disease. However, hope may be just over the scientific horizon. Stem cell research and therapeutic cloning, with all of the ethical issues they entail, have the potential of producing a cure for this only partially understood disease.
Therapeutic cloning is a relatively recent development on the medical scene. Still not fully developed or researched, therapeutic cloning is only in the first stages of development. The process involves the extraction of unfertilized eggs from women......
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