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| Human Cloning - The Way Of The Future | ||||||||||
| Congratulations pacifist hippies, you've got the week off!� I've decided to give you guys a rest this week, as you'll probably need it for the long months you'll spend over in Iraq acting as a human missile shield.� However, I'm sure I'll piss off many other people with this week's topic: why I think we should create human clones, simply for the use of their body parts. | ||||||||||
| Imagine, for a second that you are someone else, someone who loves to participate in dangerous activities, such as horseback riding or drag racing.� You're at the top of your game until suddenly, everything comes crashing down around you, following an unfortunate fall off of your trusty steed or a devastating car crash.� Your spine is severed and you are confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life, doomed to eat and drink mush through a straw because you are, for all intents and purposes, a vegetable. | ||||||||||
| That doesn't sound very appealing, now does it?� Consider this scenario.� After this unfortunate accident you are able to recover, thanks to the wonders of science.� Your spine is rebuilt, courtesy of a clone grown in a laboratory specifically for this purpose, and you are able to live the rest of your life in health.� Why, exactly, would somebody not want this to occur? | ||||||||||
| Allow me to present a portion of a list taken from http://www.humancloning.org, demonstrating many of the advances that this science would be able to make possible: the reversal of heart attacks; the use of human stem cells to create new skin for burn victims, brain cells for the brain damaged, and various organs for people in need of healthy ones; plastic, reconstructive, and cosmetic surgery, for the creation of bone, fat, and connective tissue; advancements in the search for the cure for cancer, leukemia, kidney failure, defective genes, cystic fibrosis, and even Down's syndrome; the list goes on and on.� Let me pose the question again: why would anybody not want this potential antidote to human suffering brought to full fruition? | ||||||||||
| A few semesters ago, I attended a speech here on campus given by anarchists, some of which who burn down genetic engineering laboratories in the name of "the cause."� At this speech, some of these same degenerates had the nerve to complain about how the FBI raided their homes and confiscated their computers, simply for what they saw as "exercising their right to free speech."� It is not your fundamental Constitutional right to go and burn down a laboratory for the name of your ludicrous cause, just because you don't agree with it.� How quick these bedlamites would change their tune, should they fall victim to Parkinson's disease or suffer from a paralyzing accident, and the only feasible cures in sight were the benefits from human cloning. | ||||||||||
| I put religious zealots and Jesus-freaks on the same page as these maniacal anarchists, but their motives differ slightly.� Where the anarchists would be dissenting in the name of free speech and expression, these members of the pro-life community would be fighting for the rights of all of the potential unborn children.� What about all the people whose lives would be saved due to human cloning?� As a great man once said, "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs." | ||||||||||
| Science is advancing in ways only dreamed of by the scientists of yesterday, and it's definitely advancing in a good way.� Human cloning and stem cell research would allow us, as humans, to not only perfect our race, but also live longer lives and relatively disease-free ones, at that.� If you are not for human cloning I truly believe you need to rethink your stance.� What if your child was born with brain disease, a defective heart, or some form of cancer?� Would you still denounce this budding field of science?� I didn't think so. | ||||||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2003, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||||||||
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