The only way to discover the limits of the possible, Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. This seems perfectly fitting in the context of modern Genetics in general, and particularly in its most prominent - yet highly controversial - capability, human cloning.

In discussions concerning provocative and contentious issues such as human cloning, it is reasonable for unfounded fears, emotional outcries, and attempts at easy sensationalism to intermingle. This book, however, chooses to approach the subject with sobriety, focusing on the rights of humanity and ethical considerations, and attempts to explore the extent to which some of these rights may be either harmed or advanced in the event that human cloning transitions from possibility to actuality. Specifically, it examines whether and to what extent human cloning would promote the right to scientific research and reproductive freedom, as well as whether and to what extent the right of the clone to uniqueness, ignorance of its genetic makeup, and an open future could be compromised by cloning.