Cloning | Human Cloning Would Violate the Dignity of Children

Gilbert Meilaender holds the Board of Directors Chair in Theological Ethics at Valparaiso University in Indiana.

Summary: Protestant Christian belief maintains that children should be the product of the sexual union of a man and a woman united in marriage, not only because this arrangement is in the best interest of the child but because it is in the interests of the man and woman as well. When children are begotten through the sexual union of two parents, they are equal in humanity to the parents. But if they were to be made by the parents through...

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