. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. That said, some individual desires could be met by human beings produced using SNT. For example, some infertile persons who want to be parents might see SNT as a way to have genetically- related children they could not otherwise have. As another example, some persons might wish to use SNT to reproduce the genetics of a particularly beloved person, or they might simply wish to have and raise "genetic copies" of themselves or an exist- ing child. Others might see
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. That said, some individual desires could be met by human beings produced using SNT. For example, some infertile persons who want to be parents might see SNT as a way to have genetically- related children they could not otherwise have. As another example, some persons might wish to use SNT to reproduce the genetics of a particularly beloved person, or they might simply wish to have and raise "genetic copies" of themselves or an exist- ing child. Others might see reproductive cloning as a safe way to reproduce without passing along serious genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, or they might desire a compatible tissue donor for an existing child who is ill. It is not generally held in the ethics literature at this point, how- ever, that these possible uses of SNT establish a broad social duty to pursue these outcomes. Even if there is no pressing social need for cloned human beings, people may have rights to exercise in pursuing the use of SNT to produce children. We do not discuss these rights here. They are discussed as matters of law in Section 4. Suffice it to say here that even if society chose not to pursue investment in the production of cloned children, that choice would not abridge any moral rights that individuals may have to pursue reproductive SNT as a private matter. Informed consent in reproductive SNT It has already been mentioned that one of the key questions about using SNT to produce a child is the safety of the technique. No human conception and development, let alone childhood, is free of risks. Nevertheless, because mamma- lian SNT technology is only about four. years old, it is unclear what long-term risks might be involved. Consequently, any efforts to defend the practice of using SNT to produce a child bear the burden of showing that worries about safety would be unwar- ranted. There is a question about whether a p
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