Cloning is evil...period.

I just can't understand the disregard people have for the life of others just to make their own life more comfortable. Abortion: kill the unborn child so that I don't have to bother with giving birth to and raising a child I didn't want in the first place. Euthanasia: kill the person with a possible low quality of life so that he or she is not a financial or emotional burden on me, his or her next of kin. Then, there's cloning (usually always for the purpose of making a super drug or cure): kill the unborn person so that I may harvest its cells in order to cure my disease. All of this sounds extremely self-centered. What ever happened to "Thou shalt not kill"? (Oh, wait, that's in the Christian Bible...boo, hiss). What ever happened to laws against murder? I guess if murder aids in my pursuit of happiness, then all is fair in life and death.

I know I'm going to catch flak for this, at least if anyone reads it who is only slightly moderate with regard to my views, politically, socially, and religious. "I just can't understand the disregard people have for the life of others just to make their own life more comfortable." I say that in relation to supporters of abortion, euthanasia, and cloning (among other things). Others can say that (myself among them) in relation to a certain European political and military power from the mid-20th century, whose political and military head was none other than Adolf Hitler. "Hey, the Jews are interfering with what I want as a comfortable life (a life without them), so let's off the bunch of them."

Yeah, let the hate begin. I'm not alowed to have such an opinion because it's socially unacceptable to the masses. I can't wait to hear the complaints from Jews who are supporters of abortion, etc.: "How can you makes such a comparison? How dare you make such a comparison?" To you I say, "What of the Torah, then? 'Thou shalt not kill.'"

Anyway, this is all in response to a story on FoxNews about Missouri lawmakers mulling a ban on a form of stem cell research. It's called "Therapeutic Cloning." In it, a patient's stem cells are placed into an unfertilized egg, and this "clump of cells" is allowed to develop in order to produce an organ or part of an organ as part of a treatment for a patient's condition. It sounds rather harmless on the outset; it only uses an unfertilized egg and adult stem cells--I'm totally in favor of research using adult stem cells (which, by the way, has been used more successfully and embryonic stem cell research). What bothers me about this is that it is using an unfertilized egg for something it is not designed to do. An unfertilized egg is meant to be fertilized and grow into an actual person. In therapeutic cloning, the egg is destroyed for the benefit of a patient with Alzheimer's (or some other disease).

Well, you may say that's a bit of a stretch. Good, I'm glad you do, because that's not the only objection I have to therapeutic cloning. "Give them an inch, they'll take a mile." Allow this seemingly harmless form of cloning, and what's to stop people from pushing the envelope? What's the stop us from taking that mile and "okaying" anything else? This kind of downward spiral is a proven fact; just look at the evolution of the concept of decency and television over the last few years.

Anyway, all I have to say is all cloning is evil...come quickly, Lord Jesus.