In an earlier post I opined that we as Americans should stand for life and severely limit the practice of abortion in this country, which is robbing future generations. I believed then as I believe now that human life is a gift from God with limitless worth, and that the practice of abortion robs us of the gifts and talents that each life brings. The call of not only myself but millions of others to protect human life must now be renewed with the emerging debate over human cloning. Recently Harvard University announced their intention to create human embryos for the purpose of research. The university then declared, disingenuously I might add, that they are opposed to human cloning, that the creation of embryos would be for research only, and that the embryos will be destroyed once they have outlived their usefulness.
To do this would not only be disgusting, it would contradict every sense of human ethics and decency we as a nation hold dear. Human life is not a commodity to be created and destroyed for research. It is not something that should be kept in labs and destroyed as if it were a lab rat. The day we as Americans permit this kind of activity will be our darkest.
Those supporting cloning for research say that opposition to it is opposition to progress, that we are standing in the way of horrific diseases being cured. But to what lengths are we to go for progress? I'm not the only one who believes it is morally reprehensible to destroy the lives of future generations to prolong the existence of current ones. The scientific community who supports such activities need to stop demagoguing the issue and realize that they are not God. They have no right to decide whether we discard all matter of ethics in the name of progress and they certainly have no right to create and destroy human life.
We as Americans must stand for life once again, for a line needs to be drawn somewhere before we as a society become an actual "Brave New World".
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