A Critique to the Opponent's Ethical Reasons Against Human Cloning

Human cloning is one of the most controversial issues in Medical ethics, having both advocates and opponents. This paper examines and critiques the opponents’ reasons against human cloning.The methods of this paper is analytic. First, the most important reasons given by the opponents of human cloning are presented and then they are analyzed and critiqued. Some of these reasons are as follows: the violation of human dignity and the principle of human autonomy, the violation of the principle of authority and the Principle of Informed Consent, as well as the risk of eugenics, its being unnatural, and its being interference in the work of God.The writer believes that the opponents’ Ethical arguments on the prohibition of human cloning are not convincing – as they do not prove the essential immorality of this new technology. Therefore, given the potential benefits of this technology, research may be permitted to be carried out on it. Controlled human cloning on a limited scale is acceptable from ethical point of view.