In many countries, including the UK, human reproductive cloning – creating a baby from the genetic material of a single adult – is a criminal offence. This is not generally seen as controversial: , and around the world have condemned the idea of human cloning since the technique was first demonstrated in mammals in 1997.
But why are we so against the idea of cloned human babies? As a bioethicist specialising in reproductive issues, I believe it has more to do with an irrational fear of cloning than any logical reason. All the arguments in favour of a…
