Cloning is safer - the perils of sexual DNA combination?

[Spongebob]

I've known many people who are profoundly deformed and crippled, tragically, due to congenital birth defects. Would not cloning be a preferable means by which the species is perpetuated? Individuality/personality would, of course, still exist due to PROFOUND environmental influences. 

If we cloned Hitler from his DNA, it would not be Hitler, it would just be a contributor of DNA. If you put Hitler's DNA on a ancestry website, he would still be connected to relatives outside his mother and father who don't share his last name. I am not saying you are claiming this, just that there are idiots who would claim it. 

Why would you bring this up?  No one asserted that cloning would result in recreating exact duplicates of historical people.

As far as birth defects, just like abortions, medical decisions should only be regulated for safety, but not forced or banned procedures either way by government. Point is, cloning humans, like stem cell research, has the potential solve lots of medical issues, sure, but those on the paranoid far right, not you, but those on the conspiracy right constantly get scared by new technology. I can remember back in the late 70s early 80s the term "test tube baby", and how the far right said that was playing God, now fertility clinics nobody bats an eye at. 

I doubt cloning humans could solve so many medical issues.  Cloning body parts could.  If you clone a human, you have a new human and you can't ethically harvest their parts.

BTW, there are still religious wingnuts who don't like in vitro fertilization.  I used to work with a guy who considered it to be sacrilegious.