 Why, according to the writer, is the main underlying reason that people are opposed to cloning?
Human Clones: Why Not? If you can clone a sheep, you can almost certainly clone a human being. Some of the most powerful people in the world have felt compelled to act against this threat. President Clinton swiftly imposed a ban on federal funding for human-cloning research. Bills are in the works in both houses of Congress to outlaw human cloning--a step urged on all governments by the pope himself. Cloning humans is taken to be either 1) a fundamentally evil thing that must be stopped or, at the very least, 2) a complex ethical issue that needs legislation and regulation. But what, exactly, is so bad about it? Start by asking whether human beings have a right to reproduce. I say "yes." I have no moral right to tell other people they shouldn't be able to have children, and I don't see that Bill Clinton has that right either. When Clinton says, "Let us resist the temptation to copy ourselves," it comes from a man not known for resisting other temptations of the flesh. And for a politician, making noise about cloning is pretty close to a fleshly temptation itself.
 They are too scared of the unknown and blinded by their prejudices. They believe that cloning would usurp them in one way or another.
 They don't understand the scientific reasoning enough. If they had the knowledge, they would more readily support it.  People are afraid of rich people and dictators being cloned and thus continued to be in power.  People like Bill Clinton have instilled a fear of it with his policies.  They are too scared of the unknown and blinded by their prejudices. They believe that cloning would usurp them in one way or another.