Abstract
About ethical and legal problems on cloning human beings with somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning technology, many articles have been already published. But some bioethicists argue that reproductive cloning should be acceptable for some purposes, though some European states and Japan are going to put a ban on human cloning. The base for their argument is the right of 'reproductive freedom (or autonomy)'. But the right is originally intended to give women the access to abortion and contraception, and to protect women from forced sterilization. I suppose that to support reproductive cloning on such a right is an abuse of the right, because cloning human beings is not 'reproduction' in the strict sense. In reproduction, both sexes have genetic relations to the baby, even if the baby was born with assisted reproductive technologies such as donor insemination, IVF, and a surrogate mother. But a baby born by means of nuclear transfer cloning technology doesn't have genetic relations to both sexes, so giving birth to a baby with this technology is not 'reproduction'. In this way, reproductive cloning cannot be supported on the right of 'reproductive freedom'.
