 Why, according to the writer, is the main underlying reason that people are opposed to cloning?
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. Less than two decades ago, a similar concern was raised over the ethical issues involved in "test-tube babies." Even if people have the right to do it, is cloning a good idea? Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here. Besides, such a trend would correct itself in a generation or two, because celebrity is closely linked to rarity. But genetic determinism is largely irrelevant to the cloning issue.
 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.