ubject to up to 10 years in prison and fines as high as $250,000. There are moral and ethical reasons for banning human cloning. Humans are a treasured life form and should protect the dignity of human life. It is wrong to use cloning to experiment with the creation of human life. Cloning is an insult to religious beliefs. It seems like scientists are playing God, and cloning interferes with the natural process that God has mapped out for people. Religious organizations consider nuclear transfer would cause men to be reproductively obsolete. This claim was drawn from the gathering of information that cloning requires only any cell and a woman to develop in. They also claim that cloning does not respect the fact that humans have souls. Cloning and genetic engineering both attempt to take the gene pool out of the hands of natural selection and into the hands of humans. Genetic engineering adds a new dimension into the picture. It would allow scientists not only to duplicate humans, but to perfect them as well. This seems beneficial when trying to destroy genetic diseases, but it quickly turns into serious moral and social conflicts. When people decide what genes to place into the population, and which to leave out, then they are in a sense playing God. Human cloning and genetic engineering would inevitably turn into the search for the perfect human. Throughout history mankind has been full of societies and cultures in which one type of race is valued over another. In China, for example the killing of baby girls was a common practice because of a law, which permitted only one child. Males where more valuable in their culture, so females were selectively exterminated. Also, Nazi Germany killed Jews, homosexuals, and other imperfect people in order to create the perfect Aryan race. Eugenics such as these would have been even easier by cloning and genetic engineering. Instead of exterminating people who didn't fit the standards of perfection...
