Hvis alle for det andet bliver enige om at fordømme kloning af mennesker generelt, ville nogle indføre en skelnen mellem "reproduktiv kloning" (der har til formål at genskabe et helt menneske), hvilket ville blive forbudt, og "terapeutisk kloning", der ville kunne tillades inden for visse grænser under tilsyn og på betingelse af, at den ikke bliver gjort til genstand for handel.
Secondly, although everyone agrees that human cloning must be condemned in general, some people are trying to draw a distinction between 'reproductive cloning' (aimed at reproducing a complete human being), which would be banned, and 'therapeutic cloning' , which could be authorised under supervision, subject to certain limits, and provided it is not carried out for commercial purposes.