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Cracker Commentary
Not to know what has transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Wednesday, December 11, 2002Order your clone now Stanford has announced it plans to pursue a human embryo clone project and the Corner’s Kathryn Jean Lopez wants Congress to outlaw it. I shudder. Human cloning is one of those many things that are going happen no matter how desirable or undesirable they may be, and banning it from legitimate investigation only makes certain that it will be done, unobserved, by less savory investigators who don’t care what is legal. Of course, funding will come from others of similar mind and they will be the ones who control the process for their own purposes. We learned this lesson pretty well when the subject was alcohol, although the left doesn’t get it on guns nor the right on abortion and most of us haven’t figured out it also applies to drugs, prostitution and pornography. This isn't saying the government should fund clone research. People with objections should not have to support it with their taxes. But we should allow such research to flourish visibly, with open discussion of its implications for science, ethics and economics. Prohibiting it will only eliminate the best possibilities while making a Dr. Moreau even more likely.
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