These can be available, not always easily, from anonymous sources, but not everybody wants to merge their genes with strangers. Or the couple can get the egg or sperm from a friend, but this too carries its own problems. Cloning could keep procreation in the family. Both partners, perhaps in turn, could produce their own offspring, genetic copies of themselves, and foreclose any thoughts that their children were not fully their own. Then there are some more controversial benefits.
Lesbian couples are in effectively the same situation as infertile heterosexual couples.
They need an outsider to provide some sperm. With cloning they would be able to avoid this. As Eskridge and Stein observe, the radical feminist ideal of a community without men thus becomes a live possibility, for nonsexual as well as lesbian women. Alongside these new opportunities must be placed the danger that someone might try to make multiple copies of exceptional individuals. Many of the commentators touch on this possibility, but few take it very seriously.