Abstract: . . .  including the President’s Council and NBAC. Of the groups and individuals listed in the Ethical and Social Issues section, only Clonaid and Dr. Antinori favor reproductive cloningat this time. Despite the apparent uniformityof views rejecting reproductive cloning , there is a great deal of variation in the lines of reasoning underlying such objections. Procreation Without Conjugal Union. Accordingto theUSCCB, Donum Vitae 71 instructs that “attempts or hypotheses for obtaining a human being without anyconnection with sexualitythrough ‘twin fission,’ cloning or parthenogenesis are to be considered contraryto the moral law, since theyare in opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal union.” 72 This objection to reproductive cloning , that procreation should be limited to conjugal unions, is not supported by most groups. If accepted, it would lead to a rejection of other forms of assisted reproduc . . .
. . .  Social Issues section, only Clonaid and Dr. Antinori favor reproductive cloningat this time. Despite the apparent uniformityof views rejecting reproductive cloning , there is a great deal of variation in the lines of reasoning underlying such objections. Procreation Without Conjugal Union. Accordingto theUSCCB, Donum Vitae 71 instructs that “attempts or hypotheses for obtaining a human being without anyconnection with sexualitythrough ‘twin fission,’ cloning or parthenogenesis are to be considered contraryto the moral law, since theyare in opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal union.” 72 This objection to reproductive cloning , that procreation should be limited to conjugal unions, is not supported by most groups. If accepted, it would lead to a rejection of other forms of assisted reproduc . . .
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