"The commission focused its attention on the new and distinctive ethical issues that would be raised by the use of this technique for the purpose of creating an embryo genetically identical to an existing (or previously existing) person that would then be implanted in a woman's uterus and brought to term. Although the creation of embryos for research purposes alone always raises serious ethical questions, these issues have recently received extensive analysis and deliberation in our country, and the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer to create embryos raises no new issues in this respect. The unique and distinctive ethical issues raised by the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer to create children relate to serious safety concerns and to a set of questions about what it means to be human; questions that go to the heart of the way we think about families and relationships between generations, our concept of individuality, and the potential for treating children as objects, as well as issues of constitutional law that might be involved in the area of procreation."