Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill
Christopher Tollefsen writes at First Things:
Moreover, other parts of the bill move us even further down the road toward “designer babies” than before. The bill permits the creation of so-called “savior siblings”—children created through IVF who are tested to ensure that they are genetically compatible with older siblings who might need a tissue match for therapeutic purposes. These IVF children are certainly being treated as means and not ends in themselves.
More from Will Saletan @ Slate:
In my view, the rise of this mentality — the reconceptualization of human beings as medical tools and resources — is way more dangerous than gender upheaval, species-mixing, or even abortion. Abortions, no matter what you think of them, are defensive. Tissue harvesting, on the other hand, carries an affirmative mandate. It entitles you, and arguably obliges you, to deliberately create new human life, which will then live or die based on its utility to others.