Human Cloning Commodifies Life

Whenever we treat the "parts" of human life as a raw material or a research product or something we can make a fast buck with, we run the risk of treating human life as a commodity. For that matter whenever we treat people as products that is what we are doing. Of course this strips away the dignity of the person and says something about the culture which permits this type of treatment. Human cloning is a new way of cheapening human life, stripping away the dignity of the person, and treating human life as a commodity. We take a human egg from a woman, strip out her DNA, insert the DNA from the person we are cloning and then two things can happen. The new fertilized egg is implanted into a woman, and we have manufactured a person we have chosen to give life to OR we destroy that person for research. By definition, that is what a commodity is: "Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage".