Cloning

I want to draw attention to this essay by Charles Krauthammer. I agree with his opinion on this matter, and I also agree that there has been much disinformation put out by all the parties in this debate. Names of procedures are changed to hide what they truly entail, and the fundamental question of the morality of cloning is mixed up with the good results that it might produce. By all means, the results of not allowing cloning should be taken into account, but if the procedure is fundamentally flawed (in a moral sense), then I am hard pressed to see any reason good enough to justify it. Whether cloning is morally right is the central question of this whole issue, and it is the question that the public debate in this country has not yet answered or even really addressed.