 Why, according to the writer, is the main underlying reason that people are opposed to 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. 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. If humans have a right to reproduce, what right does society have to limit the means? 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."
 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.