Stuart K. Hayashi

In the following viewpoint Stuart K. Hayashi argues that claims against cloning are based on the misconception that human clones would be exact duplicates of adults. In reality, clones will grow up in unique environments, exercise free will, and develop their own personalities, Hayashi contends. Cloning human embryos to produce new medicines is also an ethical use of biotechnology, he claims, because of the enormous advantages such procedures would convey. Hayashi is a research intern at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, an organization whose goal is to foster free-market philosophy.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How does Hayashi answer the claim that clones will be treated as outcasts because they will grow up in households different from the socially accepted norm?
2. In the author’s opinion, how do individual rights protect clones from abuse?
3. According...