Human Animal Hybrid Research

Human-Animal Hybrid Research

Human-Animal hybrid research is a contemporary and debatable topic. It is a procedure in which the nucleus of a human somatic cell is introduced into an animal egg that has had its nucleus removed; the altered cell is then stimulated to begin embryonic development. Scientists claim that by modifying stem cells and doing this type of research, they are able to develop cures and treatments for humans and animals as well.

I certainly believe that scientist cannot engage in human-animal research because it blurs the distinction between human beings and other animals, it’s unnatural. The unnaturalness remains questionable, namely, that an organism's usual state of flourishing should be valued. However, having a certain mode of reproducing, for instance, is not, in itself, ethically significant (Savulescu 2003). Nature does not come with some sort of built-in ethical import that can be read from it, such that living beings' typical ways of functioning always must be kept intact. It is what one makes of natural functions and structures that is ethically significant. Although the realities of nature constrain ethical judgments about the ways in which one should treat the natural world, these realities must be subject to interpretive framing in light of philosophical, social, biological, and other understandings.

The Natural Law theory requires one to speculate endlessly about the natural purposes of virtually all living entities and their biological components. For instance, it is not clear whether it would be ethically acceptable, on a Natural view, for one human being to donate a kidney to another or to make use of in vitro fertilization. By their very "unnaturalness," these practices would seem to violate the natural functions of the human beings involved. Yet these same interventions would help humans achieve their broader "natural" ends of

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