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Cloning Attempts to create a human being by cloning should be banned for several reasons. Although cloning has some benefits, attempts to clone a human will bring up many moral and ethical issues. Seppa (1997) reports that the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NABC) concludes that it would be “morally unacceptable for anyone in the public or private sector... to attempt to create a child by implanting cloned embryos in a woman.” Cloning has many benefits, but …

…said “a child born of cloning would face enormous social and parental expectations about what and who that child should be.” Anti-abortionists believe that life starts at conception and that cloning should be banned. Cloning should be banned for the reasons above. There is a real potential for developmental abnormalities. The risk of producing abnormal humans is dangerous to the human race and the moral and ethical issues will continue unless human cloning is banned.