So looks like cloning will only be done under a cloak of secrecy now. I find it really hard to get all excited about this issue and yet it's up there with abortion as a deeply divisive moral dilemma. I guess my take on it is that you can't stop medical science, so why bother? Cloning is here to stay and the decision by the US government will only delay the inevitable. The decision could actually be harmful because like backyard abortions, cloning is going to happen. If it doesn't happen in a clean, safe, controlled environment, then the risk of tragedy is greater. |
``Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation,'' House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, said. But harvesting spare parts from dead people is preferable? Riiiiiight.... Even if this does pass the Senate (not a sure thing) the situation will correct itself in time. The moment some incredible health breakthrough came from cloned embryos, the American public would make it legal, by whatever means necesary. |
people who shouldn't exist shouldn't exist. that's my opinion. |
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