> When you make it OK to rob a clone for parts, you have devaluated the clone to less than the status of human being.
Who is advocating that? Not I. Are we talking about embryonic stem cell research, or are we talking about adult clones?
But if we must go down that rat hole, clones are not a race any more that a twin sibling is a member of some race. A clone is simply a zygote, embryo, baby, child, or adult who shares DNA with another person, exactly like a twin.
The problem the churches have is that their reasoning for santifying zygotes is that they are potential human life (although so is a sperm and an egg). But now that so many cells could be used to make a human clone, shouldn't those cells be afforded the same protection? Shouldn't we stop brushing our teeth in order to stop killing the thousands of cells that could be babies?
You do know what a straw man is, don't you? Rather than constructing another one, would you care to address the points that I actually did raise?