HUMAN cloning is finally here. But while the Korean team has overcome some technical obstacles, the political barriers to realising cloning’s medical potential remain. Many people object to the idea of any human cloning research, even for medical reasons, claiming it will inevitably open the door to reproductive cloning or, more generally, that experimenting with embryos is immoral. I believe the opposite: cloning promises such great benefits that it would be immoral not to do it.
That is why a number of UK labs, including my own, plan to apply to the relevant authorities for permission to study human cloning…
