Abstract: . . .  Michael O’Keefe, Series Editor © Stephen Coleman, 2001. Published by the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, 2001. Draft Only: Not to be cited without permission Page 3 3 Send in the Clones? OR Should Liberals Ban Human Reproductive Cloning ? Stephen Coleman On the 24 th of February 1997, practically every newspaper in the world had a picture of a sheep on . . .
. . .  objection will evaporate. Certainly there are no philosophical arguments that would justify legislation opposing human reproductive cloning within a liberal democracy. Whether this fact is enough to prevent such laws being passed is another question entirely.  . . .
. . .  O’Keefe, Series Editor © Stephen Coleman, 2001. Published by the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, 2001. Draft Only: Not to be cited without permission Page 3 3 Send in the Clones? OR Should Liberals Ban Human Reproductive Cloning ? Stephen Coleman On the 24 th of February 1997, practically every newspaper in the world had a picture of a sheep on its front page. . . .
. . .  over reproduction? Every advance in genetics and reproductive technology has done that, so there seems no reason to single out cloning . Is it because cloning is unnatural? Maybe it is, but there is the question of how unnaturalness should be defined, and the additional problem that there is no valid argument from saying something is unnatural to saying it is wrong. Is it because cloning is against the will of God? How do we know what the will of God is? I suspect . . .
. . .  Coleman, 2001. Published by the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, 2001. Draft Only: Not to be cited without permission Page 3 3 Send in the Clones? OR Should Liberals Ban Human Reproductive Cloning ? Stephen Coleman On the 24 th of February 1997, practically every newspaper in the world had a picture of a sheep on its front page. The news that a lamb had been created . . .
. . .  life is that they reject it at a gut level, and don't know what else to say; hardly a conclusive argument against the practice. Conclusions I would conclude from this discussion that there are no good philosophical arguments for banning human reproductive cloning in a liberal democracy such as ours. It does not violate the rights of the clonant to be produced by cloning , and there are no significant bad consequences that can be predicted if the procedure is allowed. . . .
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