The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
