Cloning | Human Cloning Would Be Unethical

John O’Connor, a Roman Catholic cardinal, is the archbishop of New York.

Summary: The cloning of a human being would be unethical because it would not serve any necessary or beneficial medical purpose. The research needed to develop human cloning would produce many imperfect results, and it would be sinful to simply dispose of these “mistakes.” In addition, if humans were successfully cloned, such persons would have no parents and would therefore be less than fully human in status. Further, scientists simply do not have the wisdom to direct the course of...

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