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Is Human Cloning Ethical?

Imagine that you have just been diagnosed with lung cancer.   You have been told you have six months to live unless you can find two replacement lungs.   But, you are told and realize you are a clone and have to give your life to save another.   Is that ethically right?   Would you, the original human want to do it?   I feel that cloning human beings is ethically and morally wrong.   Cloning seems to be a big issue in the world today.   The issues of cloning became a reality in 1997. On February 27, 1997, it was reported that scientist produced the first clone of an adult sheep, attracting international attention and raising questions of whether cloning should take place. Within days, the public called for ethics inquiries and new laws to ban cloning. The potential effects of cloning are unimaginable. What would life be like with women who are able to give birth to themselves, cloned humans who are used for "spare parts," and genetically superior cloned humans? Based on the positive advances of cloning versus the negative effects, one must ask him/herself whether cloning humans should be banned entirely. Whether it is ethical or not science goes on with their experiments in the cloning process.   Personally, I think it's more like treating human beings as objects not humans.
The American Medical Association has four points of reason why cloning should not take place.   The first point is that there are unknown physical harms introduced by cloning.   The second is unknown psychosocial harms introduced by cloning, including violations of autonomy and privacy.   The third is it impacts on societal relations.   The fourth and final is the potential effects on the human gene pool.   The Americans and cloning experts just don't know the harms that will come from cloning.  
Some people say limit cloning of humans to just research or for medical reasons, but it's the same thing.   Producing clones for research or to use their parts is unethical....