I was disgusted at the outcry from moral crusaders across the world, declaring it as an act that destroys human dignity. One critic even spouted with especial pride: "it reduces us to farm animals."
We're not talking about human beings here, we're talking about clusters of cells! Perhaps if one of these moral crusaders had a family member die a long and painful death from cancer, they'd support such research. Some people ignorantly assume that cloning for body cells means replicating the entire organism for the purpose of removing the required organ. But we're talking about stem cells, long before there is even the faintest whisper of consciousness.
How dare these people condemn such harmless and helpful advances. It's makes me sick.
[ November 26, 2001: Message edited by: Sydney ]
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