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Clonaid claims they are keeping the individuals’ identities and whereabouts secret to protect their privacy and shield them from anti-cloning activists.
According to Louis M. Guenin, a lecturer on ethics and science at Harvard Medical School, cloning has little value as an alternate means of human reproduction.
“I find very few scenarios where a couple would prefer cloning over artificial fertilization followed by prenatal genetic diagnosis, which allows a couple to screen candidate embryos,” Guenin said.
There are currently two bills in Congress that would ban human cloning. One would ban all forms of cloning and stem cell research. Another would ban only cloning intended to make a human, while still allowing stem cells to be taken from embryos for tissue research.
The fears of cloning raised by the Raelians may make it more difficult for stem cell research supporters.