Proposed Ban on Human Cloning

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I'm not sure what I think about this, honestly. I'm not entirely sure how cloning is a violation of human rights in and of itself. I could see how it could be exploited to that end, but the actual act of cloning, I don't understand how that violates human dignity. I mean... you shouldn't be cloned if you didn't want to be, but I dunno... cloning is kind of a sticky situation. I'm not one to make a hasty judgement that it's all good or all bad straight from the hip. I think it requires a lot more thought than that. I think, after a good while discussing the possible benefits and drawbacks, that it could be beneficial to start cloning on an experimental basis for those things that were decided to be beneficial and of least risk. The point about the exploitation of women in the article is well taken. These should definitely be on a volunteer basis... but that's another one of those things that ought to be a given... it's not really a problem inherent in the process of cloning (although a womb is still needed), but rather a potential abuse of the process. That's what we seem to need to look out for more than the process, itself. Then again, there really ought to be more discussion and thought on the matter, from my perspective.