Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.