. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. 3. Harms to the family. Another worry is that the very mechanisms of SNT are incompatible with the kind of values that parents ought to have toward their children. That is, commentators believe that parents ought to be open and welcoming of children as individuals with their own identities and traits. In other words, SNT might change the terms of parental attitudes toward Wk^f-r 4. Harms to social values. Some commentators worry that SNT would change social ex
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. 3. Harms to the family. Another worry is that the very mechanisms of SNT are incompatible with the kind of values that parents ought to have toward their children. That is, commentators believe that parents ought to be open and welcoming of children as individuals with their own identities and traits. In other words, SNT might change the terms of parental attitudes toward Wk^f-r 4. Harms to social values. Some commentators worry that SNT would change social expectations about chil- dren, valuing them only insofar as they conform to parental expectations. There is worry that the element of control over the genetics of children would translate into a confining set of expectations about what children should be and how they should be valued. These worries extend to notions that persons will be unduly objectified and that eugenic motives will pervade society's attitudes toward children. For each of these possible harms, there are commentators who dispute that the objectionable effect must necessarily occur or that the effect would occur on a large enough scale to be significant. Indeed, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission itself took pains to note that some of these harms are speculative or could be brought under control. Most commentators believe, for example, that SNT would not be widely used to pro- duce children. Its expense and failure rate will limit its availability, while moral objections will keep many from using it. If it is not widely practiced, there will be little reason to worry about significant social changes in family dynamics on a broad scale. Other commentators have noted that profound sets of expectations with regard to the traits of children - such as their language skills, their religion, their intelligence, their educa- tion, and so on - are in some instances already the norm and that SNT by itself need not
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