An Investigation of the Rights of Human Cloning

Human Cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. There are contrary debates about the law of human cloning. This paper aims to consider the law of human cloning from different views. We believe that Islamic law has a better concept of human cloning. In the opinion of most Muslim jurists, cloning, as a great scientific event, would have advantages and limitations. According to its inevitable consequences, reproductive cloning is prohibited due to most Muslim reference decrees. However, stem cell research and cloning for therapeutic purposes are permissible with full consideration and all possible precautions in the pre-ensoulment stages of fetus development. if it is proved, the phenomenon is considered as example of required affairs based on creation of ethical, social and medical disorders, religious and ethical rulings cannot be as permission for it, and it seems that it is a point that only one case can be a response to it and it needs nothing but time.