The battle to stop human cloning will be a most important opportunity to turn the tide against the Culture of Death. Here are some talking points to help you discuss the topic of cloning with elected officials and fellow citizens.

*Cloning will destroy the unity of marriage and parenthood.

Divorce, extramarital sex, contraception and in vitro fertilization all disrupt the unity of marriage and parenthood. Cloning is yet another blow to the unity which should exist in Christian marriage.

*Cloning turns people into commodities.

Cloning subjects a human person to being treated as a thing. Cloning a child is an expensive technological project, prone to “quality control.”

*Cloning is an assault on human life.

Cloning is dangerous. Cloned human embryos have already been killed in research laboratories. In addition, genetic screening will be used with cloned human embryos and any embryo who does not pass will be killed.

*Cloning assaults the dignity of human procreation.

Human procreation involves a man and a woman coming together as one, open to new life-the fruit of their union. Cloning leaves no trace of the dignity of human procreation, as it is completely artificial reproductive technology.

*Cloning assaults the dignity of the conjugal union.

Normally, a child is the living expression of the parent’s mutual love. The potent and universal sign of God’s gift of life is lost when the child’s life begins in a laboratory.

*Cloning is unprecedented human arrogance

If making people in your laboratory isn’t “playing God,” the phrase has no meaning.

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