Introduction
The issue of therapeutic and reproductive cloning has much been discussed during the last decade all over the world. Moreover, everyone involved in the debates has had a different but a clear-cut opinion on the issue meaning that cloning is either extremely good or it is nothing else but evil. Specifically, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned, people were threatened by the possible future infinite reproduction of dictators, supermodels and geniuses. Consequently, UNESCO and the Council of Europe have independently declared that human reproductive cloning is unethical because it violates “human dignity”. The advisory commission on human cloning established by the European Commission has supported this idea as well. Furthermore, almost every Christian philosopher and many secular philosophers have also warned of dire consequences if cloning experiment is going to continue in the future. They claim that cloning, both reproductive and therapeutic, must be abolished because it is unethical in the sense that a potential human life is being destroyed. Philosophers also contend that those who support this medical research are nothing else but potential killers. However, a lot of scientists and doctors strongly support stem cell research and cloning for medical purposes because it has a potential to save lives of millions sick people all over the world. (more…)