The protestant view tends to be that improving upon nature is okay for most things and that cloning can be useful but that cloning humans is going to far because it puts too much power into the hands of a few humans. All theologians say that a clone would still be a unique individual and would therefore have its own soul. The value of cloning to society is very great. In addition to eugenics, cloning could be used to let barren parents or a lesbian couple have children. Most people do not want clones made of themselves because they feel that one of them is enough.
Most people prefer to have children through normal procreation.
Though cloning does make some human rights violations more efficient, these are merely symptoms of other existing problems, and should not be used as an excuse to ban cloning. For many people it is a useful and important technology. The religous and moral issues are the same as the abortion and euthanasia issues, and are not likely to be resolved any time soon, cloning or not. Dolly will be only one of a few cloned sheep. March 10, 1997.