The work Whose Afraid of Human Cloning then considers the following argument against human cloning which has been called the physical harm argument. It goes as follows:
Premise: It has not been proved that Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer would result in only physically, healthy children.
Conclusion: Therefore, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer should not be allowed.
Again, there is an implicit premise within the argument that assumes that before it is allowed any new reproductive method must prove that only healthy children will be created.
In fact some bioethicists have claimed that unless a reproductive method has been shown to be save then using it constitutes experimentation on the unborn without the unborn's consent and therefore it is immoral or unethical. For example, if an experimental reproductive technology has not yet been shown almost always to result in only physically healthy babies, then before we use the method we are morally obligated to get the consent of the person to be conceived. Otherwise using the method to conceive that person amounts to using im or her as a research subject without his or her consent and this is unethical. Such human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer has no been shown to be absolutely and completely safe and since it is impossible to get someone's consent to create him or her by way of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer then the method if immoral or unethical.
