Human cloning is shoddy science

"Human cloning is based on shoddy science, and it leads to disastrous and inhumane results," said Father Joseph Howard, director of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission (a division of American Life League). Father Howard was responding to reports that the British government is moving one step closer towards government support of human cloning and human cloning research.

"Practically speaking, a human clone cannot be ethically produced, because human cloning destroys human lives in the process. Human life obtained through human death is botched science," Father Howard said. "Human cloning is not a credible scientific endeavor, but science turned on its head and facing backwards."

Moreover, Fr. Howard said, "a science which attempts to advance humanity at the expense of human life is premised on utilitarianism, which seeks the personal advance of the few at the expense - and in this case the deaths - of many."

In America, Father Howard said, human cloning research is already underway in the private sector at the University of Wisconsin, and likely at other private institutions. "Our government here in the US, and our society, is based on the maxim 'e pluribus unum,' which means 'from the many [people] one [state].' Human cloning, on the other hand, aims at producing one life out of the deaths of many. The endeavor of human cloning is morally bankrupt, and a just government should outlaw this dangerous science."