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While there is no scientific evidence of successful human reproductive cloning, biotechnology combines cloning methods with genetic engineering to drive advancements in medical research and disease treatment. With the development of genetic engineering and cloning technologies, human cloning, as a possible future phenomenon, has sparked extensive ethical and moral discussions. In legal medicine, human cloning presents complex challenges intersecting bioethics, criminal law, civil identity, and forensic science. While the technology remains strictly regulated or banned globally, forensic experts and medical jurists analyze cloning through distinct administrative, civil, and criminal frameworks. Human cloning can be ethically evaluated using the foundational four principles of biomedical ethics established by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress including autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. 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