Why is human reproductive cloning wrong?
Cloning participates in the basic evil of moving human procreation out of the setting of committed marital intimacy and into the laboratory. Human procreation should not take place in the laboratory because it is inherently dehumanizing to bring a new human being into the world through means which replace the marital act. Each of us has a right to be brought into the world as the fruit and expression of marital love, rather than as the product of technical domination and manufacturing protocols. Procreation is not meant to be replaced by production. There is a dignity both to the process of procreation as established by God through sexual self giving and the dignity of the life itself which is engendered by the process. Cloning threatens human dignity on both of those levels. Cloning also represents a sort of genetic engineering. Instead of choosing just a few of the features you’d like your offspring to have – like greater height or greater intelligence – cloning could allow you to ch
