John A. Robertson

John A. Robertson is a law professor at the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. His writings on legal and bioethical issues include the book Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies. In the following viewpoint, he argues that cloning research is still at a very early stage and that it is too soon to make broad pronouncements banning or criminalizing human cloning research. The cloning of humans in the future may be of significant help for infertile couples desiring children, he argues. The fact that cloning can be used to influence the child’s genetic makeup does not preclude its use, Robertson asserts, because people already influence their child’s genes in a variety of ways.

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