Some, like Chicago physicist Richard Seed, believe that human cloning is a necessary venture in the name of research and scientific progress. 1 Others strongly oppose human cloning. To Oppose Human Cloning Human cloning risks reducing human beings to objects, ultimately leading to genetic manipulation and possibly to the practice of eugenics or population purification. Cloning is not proven to be a safe process. Humans are not objects for laboratory experimentation.
Cloning threatens the traditional family structure.
Get the facts. In 1997, President Clinton issued an executive order establishing a five-year ban on the use of federal funds for research into human cloning. But the federal restriction does not affect privately funded research. Meanwhile, critics of human cloning want to make the ban permanent and extended into the private sector. Any attempt to clone humans will utilize the same technology used on animals.