Advantages and disadvantages of Reproductive Cloning

Reproductive cloning can provide genetically related children for couples who can’t be helped by other fertility treatments. Another advantage is that it would allow lesbians to have a child without having to use donor sperm, and gay men to have a child that does not have genes derived from an egg donor . And lastly, reproductive cloning could allow parents of a child who has died to create another child with the previous child's DNA.Reproductive cloning would foster an understanding of children, and of people in general, as objects that can be designed and manufactured to acquire specific characteristics. Another major disadvantage is that it would diminish the sense of uniqueness of an individual. It would violate deeply held authenticity concerning human individuality and freedom, and could lead to a devaluation of clones in comparison with non-clones. Reproductive cloning is naturally unsafe. At least 95% of mammal cloning experiments have resulted in failures in the form of miscarriages, stillbirths, and life-threatening glitch. Some experts believe no clones are fully healthy. The technique could not be developed in humans without putting the physical safety of the clones and the women who bear them at grave risk.