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Subject: When is abortion right? |
Bible Note: Greetings CDBJ! Abortion is a tough issue to discuss because it so emotionally charged. :-) Allow me to address your responses to my points! 1) Why would they be sub-class? We already divide people up based upon wealth, and race, ect... How would we treat people who were not born naturally, but were cloned? What rights would they have? What protections? Some Sci-fi writers have long speculated that clones could be used to create sub-classes of human labors who did not have to be paid much, if at all. There is definitely a tremendous danger here. 2) Parts? We may use organs from dead people, but we don't create human being simply as spare parts. With clones, if I was wealthy enough, I could literally clone myself several times and keep 'spare' parts around for myself. Again, what rights would these 'clones' have? 3) I don't follow your point here my friend! Clones would not be 'copies' of dead people or those who are still living. They would be 'babies' who would grow up differently, with different experiences, different thoughts, in other words, different people. They would simply share the DNA of another person. Personally, I don't believe that we 'have' a soul. I believe that we have a spiritual nature and a physical nature, and that these two together make us a living soul. So, I would definitely agree with those that say from the moment of conception that the baby is alive. It is growing. It only needs time to develop. Look at the debate in our culture about abortion though. If we treat unborn humans like this, what will be the treatment that clones could expect? I could definitely see our Supreme Court ruling that clones are 'property', not human beings. :-( Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |