There are no moral or legal problems with cloning of animals, but there are a multitude of serious moral and legal problems with the cloning of humans. During the cloning of animals, whether of frogs, sheep, or other creatures, there have been many cases of imperfect clones resulting in production of malformed fetuses and deaths. This is only an economic problem with animals, but would create very serious moral and ethical problems with human cloning. The idea of permitting research on human cloning for this reason alone is unacceptable. There are other serious moral problems with the cloning of humans. A large majority of Americans consider human cloning unacceptable. According to the Bible, the Christian family consists of husband, wife, and children. Cloning could and would result in all kinds of artificial, abnormal, and undesirable family units. For example, a single woman could have a clone. A nucleus from one of her cells
could be fused into one of her enucleated eggs or one obtained from a donor, and this egg could then be implanted into her uterus or the uterus of a surrogate mother and developed in the usual manner. The female child produced would be essentially a genetic copy of the woman contributing the nucleus. A couple considerably beyond the normal reproductive age could have additional children by cloning either the husband or wife, placing children in family units in which one or both parents may be physically or financially unable to properly care for the child. Many other scenarios could be
imagined.