Every human person, we are told in Scripture, has been created in the image and likeness of God, destined for a full and perfect life with God. The universal claim binds each and every person to one God, creator and source of life. Human life can be understood only in context of its source. The natural conception of a human person thus possesses a supernatural dignity. Man cannot be free apart from his nature.
Cloning is an artificial generation of life and can only hinder true freedom.
Cloning attempts to separate life from its God given origin and family from the natural love of a man and woman. Life is not a commodity or an experiment but a gift with inherent dignity and worth. The value of human life is not created or given by man, but by God, whose natural design for the transmission of life has an inviolable dignity itself. Not every technology should be pursued or used. The possibility of cloning humans is best left unexplored and undeveloped because it would violate the dignity of the cloned child, making him the artificial product of a scientific procedure rather than the fruit of his parents' natural love and a unique gift from God.