ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the possible long-term biological risks of human cloning and explores the moral implications of these risks for future people. There are compelling medical reasons for certain forms of cloning in particular cases that may be of great benefit to people. The chapter examines these forms and the effects they might have on people, paying attention to the question of whether they are morally permissible and on what grounds they would be permissible. The genes that a cloned individual inherits from a parent or sibling may well influence the psychological properties in which personal identity consists by shaping the physical properties of the body and brain that generate and sustain one's psychology. Claims about eugenics pertain to people who already exist or will exist in the near future. The point about the eugenics of cloning is generated by more immediate concern about the welfare of people who already exist or will exist in the near future.
