Human cloning and slavery

[Jag Wife]

I thought I'd address an area of embryonic stem cell research that nobody seems to mention.
You can be sure that if we do start EMBRYONIC stem cell research as mainstream, it will lead to human cloning somewhere down the road. You can't convince me otherwise.

This cloned human being will exist solely for the purpose of getting his/her parts harvested. Wouldn't that make him/her someone else's property?

And didn't we ban slavery in this country in 1863 (I think)? I don't have my copy of the Constitution in front of me.

www.webster.com (http://www.webster.com) defines the word "slave" as:

1 : a person held in servitude as the chattel of another
2 : one that is completely subservient to a dominating influence

Same website defines the word "chattel" as:

1 : an item of tangible movable or immovable property except real estate, freehold, and things (as buildings) connected with real property

Your thoughts.

[Teenager]

You're absolutely right. Cloning and embryotic stem cell research are dangerously close(not close actually, but are) to playing god. They are both wrong for various other reasons too.

[TechnoPrincess]

I've always wondered the same thing. Why does it seem okay to some people for science to create other humans just to turn them into organ holders. I've had the same discussion about people who have second and third children just so that they can cure another one of their children of lukemia or some disease. It sickens me personally.

[DesertFox]

This exact thing has been discussed. The people who kill babies without conscience assure the world that they wouldn't think of such a thing.

Yes, they would.

[Tumblehome]

One very important point: Why clone entire human beings if all you want to do is harvest organs? Just grow the organs. Don't make whole people and you don't have this whole ethical quagmire of whether or not clones have souls and deserve human rights.

[DesertFox]

One problem: We know how to grow an entire human, but we don't know how to grow just this or just that without its support structure, and an entire human is the support structure that grows a human kidney. IOW: It takes an entire human to grow a human kidney.