The Clones are Here

Here's the thing... cloning would definitely benefit medicine. The question is, will it be allowed to benefit humanity? People have knee-jerk reactions to this kind of thing, forming an opinion based on what the "norm" for them is, based on water cooler discussions, not based on actual research or inquiry.

Let science go to work people. You want diseases cured and the standard of living to keep rising? Then leave cherry picking armchair morality out of the med-sci realm.

Ethical problems aside, How is cloning actually beneficial to humanity? Cloning would remove the probablity of useful mutations and variations in the human gene-pool. The concept of evolution is to route out problems over generations, and so replicating the DNA of people is useless. Stem-cell research is where we get the benefits. You can create spare organs without donors, and create insulin without bacteria.