In the debate over human cloning we would be wise to remember Richard Weaver’s 1948 axiom: Ideas have consequences. All ideas lead somewhere.  Question:  Where will human cloning inevitably lead? Answer: To the power of majorities over minorities and of government over people, of the strong over the weak, the rich over the poor, and the adult over the child.  C.S. Lewis once warned us of the consequences he wrote: “All possible future generations [will become the] subjects of a power wielded by those already alive… Man’s final conquest [will be] the abolition of Man”

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