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First, you kill and injure women who donate their eggs as the raw material from which cloning starts. Every egg donor suffers, at minimum, some organ damage from scarring and increased cancer risk, but some die outright of ovarian hyperstimulation.

How many is "some"? What percentage of women has this happened to? I suspect it's vanishingly low, and decreasing as the techniques advance.

Then you finally, presumably, if God doesn't stop you, get an actual clone that would otherwise survive to at least produce stem cells (4 days), and you kill it for the stem cells, OR on the really deep, dark side of humanity, you grow it up in a surrogate until it starts forming organs and then you “harvest” the organs.

Or the surrogate mother (who could very well be the source of the clone or married to him) delivers the baby and the cloned child is raised like any other child. Why do you assume that the only reason to clone a child would be to destroy it for stem cells or harvest it for organs?

Unix Geek: To your question: How many women are killed by this?
We don't know, since it is information protected by “privacy” rules, and because the drugs have not been well studied, especially in the long term. However, at least 25 documented deaths from Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHS), mostly reported in England where they actually keep count. Again, there are uncounted cancer deaths and organ failures in long term. But which woman's life do you feel entitled to throw away for the sake of junk science when ethical alternatives are light years ahead of the unethical, and much more cost effective? There are over 700 FDA-approved adult stem cell trials in progress right now. Nearly a quarter of a million Americans have received stem cell treatments using donated bone marrow, their own cells, or cord blood cells, for over 60 different diseases.
On your second question: Why do you assume the only reason to clone a child would be to destroy...?
Answer: 1)Cloning a child to bring it to birth is called reproductive cloning. It's a felony, and even the Lefties reject it. That's why Obama reiterates that “cloning” won't be allowed, when he means only reproductive cloning. Furthermore, it's even less plausible than “therapeutic” cloning (clone and kill) because the odds of getting a healthy cloned human to live to birth are vanishingly small and prohibitively expensive, removing any practical reason on earth to want it. Unless there is some vast change of technology, which overcomes the apparent inherent barriers to human cloning, it will not be possible. The more people try, the more it looks like God has built an insurmountable barrier. However, it's possible that God might give the ungodly what they want, as a punishment.