Jorge L.A. Garcia

About the author: Jorge L.A. Garcia is a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also been a Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University and a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He has written many books and articles on theoretical and practical ethics, including "It Just Ain't Fair": The Ethics of Health Care for African-Americans.

Cloning of humans can never be ethical. It muddies the concepts of family and parenthood, adding to the strain of modern family life. It degrades the dignity of the person cloned by making him or her subhuman, a manufactured product. It could lead to changing the human species and rejecting all children that do not measure up to parents' standards. The positive features of helping infertile or homosexual couples bear children are not...