But those who need cleansing also need faith to recognize it and therefore to celebrate it this Christmas. The following comments are a reflection on this excellent book. Dolly the lamb was cloned in Scotland in 1997. The President s National Bioethics Advisory Board on Human Cloning immediately advised against human cloning but only out of concern for safety. Although wonders can sometimes be performed, intimacy seems to be increasingly diminished with each new reproductive technology.
Cloning represents a way to control the future through our genetically altered children.
It has always been the case that misguided curiosity will stop at no ends to pursue whatever can be done. Attempts to control our own future and that of the world around us are, in part, attempts to deal with our fears and insecurities that arise from our distancing ourselves from God. Cloning is a new form of eugenics and results in the exercise of control over other s lives. Whether eugenics is pursued through politics and social revolution or through genetic means, there are those who inevitably end up as the desirable and others as the undesirable . A-sexual reproduction through cloning is dehumanizing and degrading found only in lower forms of life.