Rand Paul: “These words are from Frederic Bastiat's The Law. They are prophetic, not only in the way they describe legislators'…”

“These words are from Frederic Bastiat's The Law. They are prophetic, not only in the way they describe legislators' attempts to transform society through socialized economic planning, but also in the analogy to the current moral issue before us today: human cloning. Human life begins at conception. This fact is not a matter of faith. Every contemporary textbook of human embryology teaches that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization. When an embryo is cloned, a distinct human being is created: if implanted into a woman's uterus, he or she grows into a human being. Those who deny the humanity of the 'embryo' simply deny the facts. Today we see another instance of the legislator playing God, viewing himself as Bastiat's farmer or chemist. But human embryos are not just some 'seeds' for the 'farmers' to scatter! I ask those of you wishing to use taxpayer dollars to fund human cloning: Were you not once at this very stage of life? Is not each of you a developed embryo? And to those who view cloning and the accompanying destruction of humans at the embryonic stage of life as morally acceptable, I ask this, Are you aware that it took 277 attempts to clone Dolly the sheep, and when she finally was born, she was defective and died soon after? We must shudder to think of what this kind of experimentation implies for humans.”