Glenn McGee of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that a woman who had lost her husband and only son in a car crash might wish to bear a clone of one of them. And for some infertile couples, cloning would offer the only chance of bearing a child that is genetically related to themselves. One bill, introduced on 5 February by Senators Edward Kennedy and Dianne Feinstein, would impose a 10-year moratorium while allowing research into cloning to go ahead. The delay would provide a breathing space in which to develop the legal framework needed to decide who should be allowed to clone themselves. McGee told the AAAS that his goal was to 'craft some kind of policy base,d on the adoption model.
Adoption is an area where there is a lot of consensus.
Those questions would screen out people who might just want a younger version of their present partner. They would also focus on whether parents would have unreasonable expectafions about the way in which their cloned child would develop. One of the main concerns is that clones would be subjected to intolerable pressure to follow in their parent's footsteps. But that is very hard for Americans. Our focus is always on the individual's right to procreate.