[IMC-Editorial] Letter in Defense of Cloning

[ARI Media]

Dear Editor:

Hats off to the American Medical Association (AMA) for supporting the
use of cloning in medical research. Today's AMA report endorses both
the scientific and the ethical value of cloning, and it is right.

Science needs to be free from government regulations, such as those
supported by President Bush and the House of Representatives, if we
are to continue learning about our universe and ourselves. Ask
Galileo.

But more importantly, cloning research is certainly ethical, if the
concept of ethics means anything.

As novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand noted, the primary concern of ethics
is gaining the values needed to sustain and enhance human life. 
Embryonic stem cells have the potential to grow human tissue,
including human organs, which could save and improve countless lives. 
But how would we know if this potential is realizable unless
scientists are given the chance to find out?

The so-called pro-life religious conservatives who denounce and seek
to prohibit cloning would close us off from knowledge and condemn the
diseased and injured to continued suffering or death.  It's the AMA
and cloning researchers who are actually doing something for human
life.

Sincerely,
Andrew Lewis
Ayn Rand Institute
2121 Alton Parkway, #250
Irvine, CA  92606
United States
(949) 481-7682

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