Organ transplant & cloning forbidden

Human cloning is either "playing God" or a breakthrough in the scientific field. Even though much is noted on the ill effect of human cloning, it is beneficial to society because it enables infertile procreation, the knowledge of great thinkers is never lost, and people who have been in terrible accidents can live on even though their bodies can't be saved.

Cloning a human being can give people who have continual miscarriages, or are infertile, the opportunity of having a child. Although the couple could adopt, they might want a baby to call their own. Some parents want to go through the pleasure of actually having a baby. This is why cloning would be a better idea for them than adoption.

What if Einstein could still continue his work, years after his death? He would have another lifetime to research. If we were allowed to clone humans, then the knowledge of great thinkers such as Einstein would never be lost. With great minds recreated in another body and time, they could use their minds to even greater lengths than when they lived. They could do this because they would have more sources for experiments available and the common knowledge of the world would be greater in a future time, so that would catapult their minds to create even more fantastic inventions and ideas. At one time it was considered impossible for people to fly; well the Wright brothers proved them wrong, and if they were alive today then they could use their minds to help in space exploration and other aviation feats.

When someone is unjustly murdered there is no justice for them. But if we could clone humans, the people who are killed in murders, or car accidents could be "brought back to life" in a sense. The people in these accidents and acts of violence didn't do anything to cut their life short. With cloning they would be given the chance to live again. Not just complete human cloning, if someone loses their leg in a war, then their leg could be cloned and they could walk again. Cloning would be a great addition in the medical world and would greatly lower deaths, and lifelong injuries.

Almost all of the time, human cloning gets a bad rap whether it is in movies, or the press spinning cloning experiments out of control. I do not feel that cloning should just be something that we use on an everyday basis, it should be used in moderation. Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie "The 6th Day" when people's lives are not valued at anything, and whenever they die they are just cloned again. If we start Human cloning, then it should be only used in extreme situations. Even though we would have the ability to "raise the dead" we should still treasure the value of a human life.

Originally posted by: Believe

Do you think Organ transplant/donation and Cloning is against the religious belief? why? Views and comments plz😊

The Hindu mythology has mentioned organ transplant eg Ganeshji was transplanted with an elephant's head . Cloning too finds place - Parvati had created Ganeshji from her skin cells. So it wasnt forbidden but its knowledge was imparted to only select few perhaps to prevent misuse in the wrong hands !

As far as I know that most (not all) religions prohibit humans from attempting to 'play God', but encourage compassionate healing and medical science. There are some people out there who take faith stringently and feel that even organ transplant is against faith as it is a form of trying to play God. They will not even sign up to have organs donated after death. There are some people who feel that anything to 'help humanity' including cloning and embryonic stem cell research is permissible. It all boils down to how strictly or how loosely one wants to interpret their religion.

As for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in general they are favorable towards organ transplant as well as basic preliminary stem cell research. Very few narrow sects are stringently against medical treatment or research. They tend to be against embryonic stem cell research and cloning. That is because embryonic stem cells come from human embryo and human embryo can either be obtained from a miscarried fetus or abortion, and in general the people are against abortion or 'using' miscarriage (some do support using stem cells from a miscarriage).

While cloning is usually rejected as attempting to play God, the religions still grapple with ethics of cloning on complex moral issues. For example organs like liver etc cannot be taken from one person to another unless one person dies. However, cloning technology can hypothetically clone an organ like liver. So people grapple with their faith and ask, if an innocent child is dying due to liver failure is it that morally wrong to clone a liver for the child? Cloning as well as embryonic stem cell research has shown promise to cure diseases like Cancer especially lethal forms of blood cancer, brain cancer etc. People grapple to weigh the sinfulness of cloning or harvesting embryonic cells versus the virtue of potentially saving hundreds of lives. It is not always a black and white answer.

Then some people who have an environmental frame of mind also ponder on ethics of cloning to rectify human damage. If man has destroyed some of God's species of plants and animals to being severely endangered – can man fairy try to rectify the mistake by cloning them back or is the immorality of cloning hard and fast.

Islam Allows Stem Cells Research, But Against Human Cloning

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The use of stem cells for research was allowed in Islam, but not for human cloning, said Dr. Israr Ahmed, an internationally recognized Pakistani religious scholar.

Dr. Israr is also the founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami Quran Academy.

He was speaking on the issue at a seminar organized by the Punjab University Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) on "Ethical Issues Related to Work on Stem Cells".

Delivering a lecture on the origin of life, seen through the prism of Islam, Dr. Israr cited Quranic verses and Hadith interpretation to conclude that killing of an embryo before 120 days was regarded as 'makru', but after 120 days, it was considered as forbidden (haram) unless it was done to save the life of the mother.

University of South Asia Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr Muhammad Salim Akhter discussed development of potential life in utero and in vitro (test-tube) as a result of conception.

He described the life of stem cells up to day 120 after fertilization. He also explained the use of stem cells for implantation into the womb and the use of excess stem cells for research purpose, The Nation reported.

Member Council of Islamic Ideology Muneer Ahmad Mughal said that research on latest technologies was in line with the teachings of Islam and research on stem cells was legitimate and permissible.

Prof. Khairat M Ibn-e-Rasa concluded the workshop by saying that if we did not work on new and innovative concepts, we would lag behind the world.

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