Raymond K. DeHainaut

About the author: Raymond K. DeHainaut teaches international studies at the University of South Florida and is associate editor of The Human Quest. He was previously a Methodist missionary in the Dominican Republic.

Anti-abortion activists and other conservatives who condemn human cloning and call for banning it are mistaken in assuming it is always wrong. People may be cloned for ethical or unethical motives, but there is nothing inherently wrong with cloning itself. Cloning has power to bring much good or much evil to the human race, depending on how it is used.

No sooner had Dolly, the cloned sheep appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and even before G. Richard Seed's announcement that he had decided to use this proven technology to clone a human being in the near future, President...