 Why does the writer use other medical procedures as evidence to support cloning?
Human Clones: Why Not? 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. And for a politician, making noise about cloning is pretty close to a fleshly temptation itself. Probably almost none, because Clinton has maintained Ronald Reagan's policy of minimizing federal grants for research in human reproduction. Besides, most researchers thought cloning humans was impossible--so, for the moment, there's unlikely to be a grant-request backlog. There is nothing like banning the nonexistent to show true leadership. He also openly claims the authority to decide how people reproduce. The basic religious doctrine he follows was set down some two millennia ago. Sheep feature prominently in the Bible, but cloning does not. So the pope's views on cloning are 1 st century rules applied using 15 th century religious thinking to a 21 st century issue. Essentially all reproduction is done these days with medical help--at delivery, and often before. Truly natural human reproduction would mean 50 percent infant mortality and make pregnancy-related death the No. 1 killer of adult women. True, some forms of medical help are more invasive than others. Less than two decades ago, a similar concern was raised over the ethical issues involved in "test-tube babies."
 To show that reproduction has always been assisted to the benefit of people one way or another, with good results.
 To show that there is a demand for more reproductive aids like cloning.  To show that the fear of cloning is not based on science.  To show that reproduction has always been assisted to the benefit of people one way or another, with good results.  To prove the science behind cloning and to show it is based in commonly used practices.