ramifications regarding the legality of cloning in halacha

This topic is a complex one, which raises both hard-core halachic quesitons and also general hashkafic issues. I would like to forward you to a number of articles about the issue:

1. "Human Cloning: Scientifics,Ethical and Jewish Perspective."
(JME Vol. III No. 2 September 1998)
by Prof. Avraham Steinberg
https://www.medethics.org.il/articles/JMEB.1.15.pdf

Towards the end of the article is a halachic summary and practical suggestions.

2. The report: The Use of Embryonic Stem Cells for Therapeutic Research.
by the Bioethics Advisory Committee
The Israel Academy of Scinces and Humanities.
http://www.academy.ac.il/bioethics/english/report1/Report1-e.html

3. "Cloning People and Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis," by Rabbi Michael J. Broyde, in Jewish Law.

4."Torah Perspectives on Cloning" Part I and Part II, by Rabbi Chaim Jachter.

Kol Tuv,

Meir Orlian