Cloning

Although President Obama called cloning "dangerous, and profoundly wrong, and has no place in society" what did he really say? The official transcripts of his remarks on the White House web site is: "And we will insure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society."  Whoa!  What door? No door's been closed to human cloning. He simply closed the door to "the use" of human cloning for one purpose. Wide open is the door to the use of human cloning for other purposes. The door he closed, or perhaps, is slowly closing, is the door to human reproduction. What nonsense! If you allow human cloning for any purpose, you are allowing it for human reproduction. That's what we humans do.

When a man and a woman create an embryo in the normal way, that embryo has his mother's and father's genes. The child is not a reproduction of neither. It is an individual. However, a scientist clones a human embryo, he is making a genetically exact reproduction of the person cloned.

Harvard educated? Elected President? Lawyer? His statement is intellectually indefensible.

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