Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins

Mae-Wan Ho is founder and director of the Institute of Science in Society (I-SIS), a nonprofit organization based in London, England, that seeks to maintain social responsibility within the fields of scientific research and application. Joe Cummins is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of West Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Many argue that cloning human embryos will benefit medical science because embryonic stem (ES) cells may give rise to—and potentially replace—almost all types of human tissue when they degenerate. However, creating and destroying human embryos for scientific and medical purposes is morally unacceptable because it
involves the destruction of life. In addition, it opens the door to the unethical practices of reproductive cloning and eugenics. The rush to advance...