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Argument: Parental motives can't be used against cloning and not normal child-rearing
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"The case for cloning humans". The Age. January 1, 2003 - "Finally, it is sometimes said the clone is not valued for itself: it has been created to satisfy someone else's selfish desires. We can imagine that parents might want to replicate a child they have lost in a motor accident, or that a great business leader might want copies of himself or herself to create a dynasty. There might be even more unsavoury motives - as have been suggested in the Raelian case. But equally, there are people who can have a baby in no other way and who would be childless otherwise. And imagine what would happen if we tested the motives of couples wanting to have a baby in the normal way! If the technology becomes available there will need to be good reasons to deny people that opportunity."
