Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
Human cloning is coming.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
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.
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.