Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.
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.
Human cloning is coming.
The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
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.
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.