Abstract: . . .  one were to be born, would be the natural child of those parents and would not be a clone – but the risks are huge. However despite the risk he said he has a long list of applicants from all over the world. But nothing ever happened! Finally to go back to reproductive cloning . I think that many of the reasons suggested for human reproductive cloning , such as replacement of lost kin or the perpetuation of particular individuals, are not only fallacious because they fail to acknowledge the uniqueness of every human person, but also they are ethically unacceptable because of their instrumental treatment of the new human being. Every child that is born is to be valued for his or her own . . .
. . .  monster” which refers not to a human clone, but to an Italian, Professor Antinori, then President of the Italian Society of Reproductive Medicine, and who wanted to ‘clone’ humans by taking cells from a man’s skin and fusing them with female egg cells extracted from his wife’s ovaries, after the original cell nucleus has been removed. The embryo, after stimulation, was then to be reimplanted into the woman’s womb. So the child, if one were to be born, would be the natural child of those parents and would not be a clone – but the risks are huge. However despite the risk he said he has a long list of applicants from all over the world. But nothing ever happened! Finally to go back to reproductive . . .
. . .  provided the nucleus? Then people wondered whether cloned animal would show increased susceptibility to cancer and other diseases because their genes are already ‘aged’? However, the first mouse to be cloned from an adult cell died at the age of two years and seven months, above the average life expectancy (Nature, 405, May 18th, 2000, p. 268). Dolly has now died, living to a good age and dying from arthritis. So even if human reproductive cloning were considered ethically acceptable on other grounds, there would still be very severe questions about the safety of the procedure and the degree of wastage that could occur. These questions could only be settled, first by extensive animal  . . .
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