Later the Vatican announced that cloned human beings would not have souls, a point of view that many dreadful sci-fi movies have been playing on for generations. U.S. President Bill Clinton directed the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to prepare a report examining the ramifications of cloning technology and urged that no federal funding should be allowed for research into cloning human beings. Meanwhile, researchers are nearing the day when the secrets of human aging will be uncovered. Lifespans will lengthen to centuries. Human immortality will be within our reach.
People tend to fear new possibilities.
The easiest thing to do with something that frightens you is to banish it. Then it can't hurt us. Yes, but it can't help you, either. Otherwise he would be among the angels now. When anesthetics were first introduced in surgery, in the early nineteenth century, moralists railed against their use in childbirth.