Abstract

Human cloning will not generate human copies or prematurely aged babies. Rather, it will help infertile, gay, and lesbian couples have ordinary babies who are genetically related to them. In the face of the drive to reproduce, laws that ban human cloning will be ineffective. Parents will simply travel to states or nations with more tolerant laws and come home pregnant or with babies. If they are prosecuted and imprisoned for the crime of cloning, their children will suffer. Moreover, cloning bans will stigmatize cloned children as decrepit copies who are unworthy to exist. Education is a preferable solution. Once the public realizes that children born through cloning are as unique and human as everyone else, pressure to ban human cloning should subside.