Roman Catholic Church
In 2008, the Catholic Church published 'Dignitas Personae'. In it, they look at different forms of genetic engineering. As well as being against the creation of life without the loving union of a couple, the Church believes that making a clone would be an attack on humanity itself, making the new person a slave:
In theory, reproductive cloning would be able to satisfy certain specific desires, for example, control over human evolution, selection of human beings with superior qualities, pre-selection of the sex of a child to be born, production of a child who is the "copy" of another, or production of a child for a couple whose infertility cannot be treated in another way...
If cloning were to be done for reproduction, this would impose on the resulting individual a predetermined genetic identity, subjecting him – as has been stated – to a form of biological slavery, from which it would be difficult to free himself. The fact that someone would arrogate to himself the right to determine arbitrarily the genetic characteristics of another person represents a grave offense to the dignity of that person as well as to the fundamental equality of all people.
Church of England
In 2008, the Church wrote the EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK:
While no international ban on human reproductive cloning exists... There are widely held concerns that cloning technology may be used to clone a human child in countries in which there are no legal restrictions in reproductive cloning techniques.
On their website, the Church says:
Human reproductive cloning was made unlawful by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Few members of the Church of England would dissent from such a position.
In a 2000 briefing paper, Therapeutic uses of Cell Nuclear Replacement, the Church says of reproductive cloning (although not their official line):
It is widely agreed that this is not an ethically acceptable procedure. Not only is it a process that has a high wastage rate (277 attempts were necessary to produce Dolly) and of uncertain safety, but it is also generally seen as being ethically unacceptable in itself.
