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In practice, genetic information, once recorded, will be difficult to keep secret. This is a terrible invasion of personal privacy. In some countries detailed genetic information could be used to deny people health insurance. And employers who have access to such information will be likely to discriminate against people with certain conditions. There is a difference between seeking to eradicate disease and playing God. Embryo research involves creating and destroying human life. That is morally wrong. The ability to detect the sex of the foetus has led to manipulation of births in favour of males. In China, for example, in some provinces there is a significant and unnatural imbalance between male and female in the population. This is likely to have serious negative social consequences. If a couple is unable to have a child of their own, they can adopt one. Cloning in full of difficulty and danger. Much cloning ends in failure — it took nearly 300 attempts to clone Dolly the sheep, who then died prematurely of lung disease. Many attempts at cloning animals have produced animals with severe abnormalities. Scientists who go down this path could end up producing Frankenstein monsters. A genetically engineered virus could turn out to be particularly deadly. Cloning produces terrible emotional pressures. A father looks at the daughter cloned from his wife and sees the beautiful young woman he once fell in love with. A child growing up knowing it is the clone of one of its parents will feel that it is impossible to establish his/her own identity. Cloning is open to abuse. What would Hitler or any other racist regime have done with it had it been available in the 1930s and 1940s? It could lead to a world with a cloned master race tyrannizing over a work force of cloned slaves. How horrible! Cloning will stop genetic improvement of a species, as this usually occurs through sexual reproduction. Teamwork Show Listen to the audio c