It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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.
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
Human cloning is coming.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.