 Why does the writer use other medical procedures as evidence to support 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. He also openly claims the authority to decide how people reproduce. 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. But genetic determinism is largely irrelevant to the cloning issue.
 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.