International efforts are now growing to try to outlaw one of the most controversial possibilities of recent reproductive research: cloning humans. Spurring these moves last month were the outspoken plans of Italian fertility specialist, Severino Antinori and his colleague Panayiotis Zavos, who announced at a meeting in Washington that they were pushing ahead with experiments on human cloning a...

Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on those which tend to produce new human beings with imp...

This Viewpoint formulates and responds to three lines of argument concerning human reproductive cloning's potential to undermine our sense of self or identity. First, cloning would undermine our sense of individuality or uniqueness. But it could only undermine our genetic uniqueness, not our full individuality. Second, cloning would undermine the value or worth of human beings. But it would not...

The rapidly changing technologies that involve human subjects raise complex ethical, legal, social, and religious issues. Recent advances in the field of cloning and stem cell research have introduced new hopes for the treatment of serious diseases. But this promise has raised many complex questions. This field causes debate and challenge, not only among scientists but also among ethicists, rel...