Second Chances

January 13, 2006

Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review says that the fact that Hwang didn’t actually accomplish anything gives us “a second chance to preserve the dignity of human life.”

This is actually good news. Cloning — even under frequently used euphemisms: somatic-cell nuclear transfer, therapeutic cloning, and simply “stem-cell research” — would be a giant leap for mankind, and not a good one. To create a life in order to destroy it, as so-called therapeutic cloning would do, is a brave new world for us. A world that, although some states even here have already invested money in pursuing, we have not quite arrived at. Phew.

Read the whole thing.