On the fact that of all the embryos destroyed in the world, this is the one for which we hear him. That suggests to me that his motivation is an objection to the cloning itself.
That you can’t understand how someone could hold such a view? I can assure you there are indeed people who believe this.
For ordinary people, yes. For clones, no. Most people who are anti-abortion would have been horrified to see this baby carried to term. Mark my words, we'll see violent protests from many people once cloned humans are born, with the pro-life activists in the van.
Perhaps you don't understand the main current of pro-life thought. "Life is to be protected from conception to natural death." Experiments with cloning are just as much an abomination as other "reproductive technology." I think it is horrible for folks to use IVF to make embryos, but that doesn't mean that I don't want those embryos, once created, to be born.
It's a consistent mind set. It's not hard to fathom.
SD
I'll accept the results of cloning humans as humans with all the rights I would give other humans (protection of life, liberty and property). But, I don't approve of the manipulation that creates the clones (like IVF, the loss of life before success is too high).
Nevertheless, these *particular* clones were/are only created in order to destroy them in harvesting stem cells.