These moral considerations argue for the regulation of cloning, not its banning. From a religious perspective, cloning, like other technologies is morally neutral, depending on how it is used. At the same time, the Tower of Babel story warns us that we are not God. A potential benefit of cloning is to alleviate infertility, recently stirred up by physicist Richard Seed with his threat to open cloning clinics. Even though Seed has been portrayed as odd, his proposal is not immoral.
Pastoral counseling is a big part of a clergyperson's day.
Bereavement is the most common and complex human situation that I counsel as a rabbi. The emotional despondency of infertility is a close second, and its sadness emulates bereavement. A couple who has attempted unsuccessfully for years to conceive frequently suffers, as the mourner, feelings of frustration, blame, anger, and guilt. Both bereavement and infertility are about immortality. In bereavement after death one mourns what has been lost.