"Unfortunately, for the most part the media's reaction against human cloning has been rapid and not well thought out. People with little expertise are rushing to ban human cloning. If America bans human cloning it will set back the good that can be done from human cloning for decades."

CORE ...........

In 'reproductive' cloning the developing embryo (produced by one of the above processes) would be allowed to continue growing as a copy of the donor from whom he or she was created.

SRT Project Church of Scotland .........

The most fundamental ethical case against human cloning is that no human being should have their complete genetic make up predetermined by another human being.

What do you think?

If it were possible to clone humans, do you think it would be acceptable to do it?
Are people more than their genes?
What do you think the effects would be on human identity and relationships of creating someone who is the twin of their father or mother, born in a different generation and environment?
Would a clone be an individual?
Would it really be human, with a soul?
How much do your emotional, social and physical surroundings affect your identity? Does this override your genes?
What if this clone were then cloned again and again?
What would their status and roles be?
What about twins?
Does the existence of identical twins mean that we should have no ethical difficulty over cloning or that to object to cloning implies that twins are abnormal?