David Weldon: “on Sunday, it was announced that the Massachusetts biotechnology company, Advanced Cell Technology, had created the…”

“on Sunday, it was announced that the Massachusetts biotechnology company, Advanced Cell Technology, had created the first human clones. They claim they only want to use these embryos for research purposes. However, this research is unethical for at least two reasons: First, it involves the special creation of human life for experimentation and then destruction. There are morally acceptable alternatives to this type of research. Secondly, for this research to advance, scientists will need massive quantities of women's eggs to generate the necessary number of clones for the research to proceed. Women will be donating their eggs not for the purpose of having children but for the purpose of making money. As pro-choice feminist Judy Norsigian said in a Boston Globe column, ``Because embryo cloning will compromise women's health, turn their eggs and their wombs into commodities, compromising their reproductive autonomy and virtually certainly lead to the production of experimental human beings, we are convinced the line must be drawn here.'' Judy is right. The Senate needs to act.”