The path to abortion and the road toward cloning is one that consistently and increasingly subordinates the primary good of the human to some secondary good. This radical disorder is truly preposterous. But, more significantly, it threatens our ability to locate the center of lovableness in the other, and with it, our own capacity to love. A world in which people are merely attractive is a loveless and most unhappy world. Abortion attacks love.
Cloning is the attempt to replicate the unlovable out of the ruins of lovelessness.
Dr. DeMarco is professor of philosophy at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ont.