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Ban
Now
On human cloning.
By
NR Editors
From “The Week,” December 17, 2001,
issue, of National Review
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Worcester, Mass.-based company called Advanced Cell Technology claims
to have cloned human embryos-the first time that has been done. Reports
of this breakthrough have renewed congressional calls for a ban on
cloning. But Congress has been divided on the scope of a ban: Many
congressmen want to ban "reproductive cloning" while allowing
"therapeutic cloning." In the latter case, a human embryo
would be created but never implanted in any woman's womb; instead,
it would be "harvested" for research and medical purposes
and, in the process, destroyed. This kind of cloning is for some reason
considered less troubling than reproductive cloning. But this is upside
down. Therapeutic cloning involves creating a human embryo-which is
to say, an embryonic human being-while planning to kill it. No medical
breakthrough, however desired, can justify treating human life in
this instrumental manner. Cloning should be banned comprehensively,
and banned now, before what is naïvely called scientific "progress"
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