The word "cloning" is defined as "the production of genetically identical organisms through the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer". This means that, through cloning, it is possible to produce a baby with similar genes like the parent" (McGee 112). However, it is essential to note that, a cloned person is not exactly the same as the original person. For many decades, the issue of human cloning has raised numerous ethical issues since the opponents, and those in favor of cloning have put forward compelling reasons to back their arguments. While scientists argue that human cloning is a fundamental advancement in humanity, theologians, ethicists and psychologists disagree and think that it has led to a moral abyss and degraded human dignity. Human cloning is potentially harmful to the society and should be condemned.
The most primary reason to be against human cloning is that it contravenes what God created in reflection of his own image. When God made man, he did so in his own image and cloning clearly violates the likeness of God. After creating man, God said "go ye and fill the world"." Through this, God permitted conjugal union as a sign of human dignity to procreate. However, cloning violates the right of procreation since it removes the activity of childbearing from man and bestows it to the laboratories (Turner 160). As a matter of fact, we all know that only the God is our creator, and proponents of cloning are trying "to act like God"" by producing Xerox copies of human beings through scientific methods. No wonder, why religious people condemn cloning as it is a violation of God's holy laws. The mere fact that the first experiment of cloning, which gave birth to Dolly the lamb was successful, does not justify that it will be equally successful when used on human beings. As a matter of fact, research had evidently proved that there were 276 failures of experiments done before the final one finally produced a cloned sheep (Kass & James 165).