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Well, aside from the fact that none of the other of the millions of embryos being destroyed each year seemed to merit his individual attention, my suspicion is that if this particular embryo had been carried successfully to term, his outrage (and everyone else's) would have been all the greater.

Sadly, since the statement is in regard to this embryo, and there is a great number represented on FR, who value all human life and argue for its Natural completion from birth to the grave, I find that your statement, Physicist (a FReeper I really respect), to be disingenuous in the extreme!

None of us know what the result would have been -- but those of us who choose to value ALL human life, and feel the outrage and violation of Natural Law here in this particular set of announcements denouncing this new affront to LIFE ... through the "creation of human life" ... as well as the cavalier disposal of this human life -- to be a single item for our address.

This scientist and his company and others have begun, in earnest, the natural precursor to more rampant destruction of Human Life.

Perhaps we MAY be treating this as a huge issue (which it is for us), but surely from any point of view you can understand how we are offended by this experiment with life and how we must view it as just another step toward the further degradation of all life, of God's Law and Natural Law (one and the same).

This is NOT a separate issue, but another phase of the same issue ... the sanctity of LIFE.

This gross experiment further proves the reproductivity of cells -- thereby supporting the ongoing and successful exploration of already born ... stem cell research.

Since I have a grandchild who is alive because of a bone marrow donation (stem cell) from an unknown adult donor ... I won't even answer any "reasoned need" argument for "build and destroy" -- or "create to kill".

Ask yourselves: would you still object if this baby had been carried successfully to term? Would your objections be louder, or would they be tempered by the celebration of a new human life?

Cloning does not in principle have to result in the death of the embryo. Once that hurdle is overcome, it cannot be morally equated with abortion. It will be morally equivalent to any fertility treatment. Then what will you say? Will you object to it more, or less?