In the past, we saw the unborn baby as a child of God. We used a vocabulary grounded in love. Language is revealing, and today our language has changed. None of us should be surprised. The techniques we use for in vitro fertilization already come very close to those used for cloning.
Animal cloning is already routine.
And grieving parents have already begun to line up with cell samples of their deceased sons or daughters, hoping to bring them back from the dead. The Feb. 4 New York Times reported on a pro-cloning group with at least 50 female volunteers eager to donate their eggs and serve as surrogate mothers. The women hope to act as a kind of assembly line, so that defective cloned embryos can be aborted without slowing down the experiment. If a pregnancy fails, a new surrogate will step in right away to carry a new cloned embryo, until a healthy child is finally born. The Book of Genesis was written 4,000 years ago.