Moratorium on reproductive cloning to be extended

In 2005, the United Nations condemned reproductive cloning as useless in protecting life and incompatible with human dignity. Russia, too, sees reproductive cloning technologies as irresponsible and out of line with the science to date. Accordingly, it maintained a moratorium on them between 2002 and 2007. After some heated debate in the academia and Parliament, the Lower House approved an amended version of a government bill to extend the moratorium. In doing so, this country joins a host of other members of the family of nations.

We have an opinion from Professor Irina Siluyanova, at the head of the Bioethics Department of the Russian University of Medicine:

Unlike under normal reproduction which involves two sexes, reproductive cloning creates exact replicas or organisms that already exist. Naturally, this stirs Big Brother-type designs for mass-producing humans with predetermined parameters and properties. Normal variation that makes each human unique  would be replaced with uniformity to a pragmatic blueprint. This is profoundly immoral and should be firmly banned.