I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.
Human cloning is coming.
Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.
I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.
We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.