I read the thinly disguised guest commentary by Seth Cooper and Timothy Goddard (State cloning bill would set too dangerous a precedent,” April 13), with their unopposed views on cloning and stem cell research.
As I read the article, my first thoughts were that these people must be religious freaks in sheep’s clothing. A query on the Internet substantiated that indeed they are from the God Squad, trying to impose their views on us liberals.
If God gave each of us a soul, why should we presume that he would give clones a soul? If he did, and you were cloned, would you then only have a fractional portion of your original soul? Will Dolly the sheep and her mother now go to sheep half-heaven?
Life is for the living, and if gathering cells from soulless embryos will help someone in need, then go for it. And if we do happen to hatch a few soulless clones, good for that, too. We can use them to do the jobs that the illegal immigrants won’t do.
Please, don’t run one-side commentaries. They’re as misleading as Rush Limbaugh.
Ron Larsen
Everett
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