Should reproductive cloning be made available to people who want their own biologic children? (Pro & Con).

YES I am in favor of reproductive cloning, also known as reproductive regeneration.

Patients want to have a child, a healthy child, and they don't want to borrow someone else's genes or sperm. They want a biologic child of their own.

Infertility is a disability and a disease that has reached epidemic levels. We are in the business of helping infertile couples have children of their own. We are totally against designer babies. We are not interested in manipulating the genetic information, but rather in allowing couples to become biologic mothers and fathers of healthy children.

As with cloning, people also were concerned when the technology for test-tube babies evolved. But after Louise Brown became the first baby to be born following in vitro fertilization, IVF became widely practiced and accepted.

The question we should be addressing is who should develop this technology and how can we develop it safely with minimal risks to mother and child.

The development of reproductive technologies requires some risk, just like any other medical procedure. Most techniques have been developed without much, or any, animal research.

Let's talk about Dolly, the cloned sheep. Anybody who knows anything about experimentation knows that it was a hit or miss experiment. The success rate was 3% because 29 embryos were transplanted into recipient sheep. Animal cloning was inefficient when Dolly was born, but today's advancements in science will allow us to become much more efficient. We already have reached up to an 80% success rate in cloning animals.