Concerns about the level of technological capability make it much easier to build a consensus regarding the need to protect human dignity by preventing experimentation in cloning. For now there is an alliance between both the religious and scientifi c communities regarding the need to ban reproductive cloning, this alliance may however, disappear in coming years as advances in cloning techniques developed for animal cloning, as well as that carried out in research cloning for the purposes of harvesting stem cells show greater possibilities of achieving successful cloning in humans. Failure to exploit the current consensus on the need to.