No: the potential for good is too compelling

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Human cloning would be profoundly beneficial to the human race and should not be banned because of fear. Infertile couples or couples who have lost a child could benefit from cloning. Cloning would be used similarly to other forms of genetic selection. Cloning, in and of itself, would not be harmful, and the actual potential for harm is unclear. Cloned children would still become individuals because of their individual environments.

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Yes: individual dignity demands nothing less

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Cloning of humans should be statutorily banned because it is an affront to human dignity. Children are not commodities, sources for spare organs, or animals to be bred. The sacredness of such mysterious concepts as parental identity and human individuality would be destroyed by cloning. Cloning is much different than in vitro fertilization, which is still a form of human reproduction.

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The clone age

Article Abstract:

Several lawyers weigh the legal and ethical implications of cloning humans, and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission called for a moratorium on such cloning on the grounds that it was yet unsafe. The commission is not calling for a halt in cloning and genetic engineering research, and the former is also ongoing in an effort to enhance animals for agricultural purposes.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Panel Discussion, Garfinkel, Mark D., Andrews, Lori B., Rothstein, Mark A., Latham, Stephen R., Charo, R. Alta

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