Human Somatic Cloning: (Interests and Harms)

Abstract

Cloning of humans is one of the most recent and contemporary topics that has sparked controversy in societies, and opinions about it have differed between supporters and opponents. This research clarifies the meaning of cloning and its types, reviews the benefits of human cloning that supporters of cloning have insisted on, and also reviews the harms of human cloning that opponents have adopted. The research also weighed the interests and harms in light of an important legal rule in the aspect of balances in jurisprudence, which is the rule that preventing harm is more important than bringing about benefits, leading to the preference of the scale of preventing harm over the scale of interests and harms.