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If the arguments to show that cloning human persons is intrinsically wrong are, as I have argued, implausible, and if the crucial objection appealing to undesirable consequences can be satisfactorily answered, either now, or in the future, either by an increase in our scientific knowledge or by advances in cloning techniques, are there now, or would there then be, good reasons to move ahead with the cloning of humans where the aim is to bring persons into existence? I shall argue that there are.

The considerations that, other things being equal, support the implementation of cloning aimed at producing persons fall into four main categories: first, there are considerations related to the well‐being of the person who is produced via the cloning; secondly, there are cases where those benefited are already existing persons; thirdly, there is a consideration that involves the possibility of benefits to both cloned persons and their parents; finally, there are benefits to society at large, including contributions to important scientific knowledge, and resulting benefits for anyone rearing a child, cloned or otherwise.