A ban on cloning may be unconstitutional. It would deprive people of the right to reproduce and restrict the freedom of scientists. A clone would not really be a duplicate, because environmental factors would mold him or her into a unique individual. A clone would have as much of a sense of individuality as do twins. A clone would have the same rights as do all other people.
Cloning is comparable in safety to a number of other medical procedures.
Objections to cloning are similar to objections raised against previous scientific achievements, for example, heart transplants and test-tube babies, that later came to be widely accepted. For a free trial of World Book Online, click here . We'd like to hear from you. Click here to submit your comments. All rights reserved.