I am about to stop for lunch. I decided I had better write this now, though. This sort of thing is better done on an empty stomach.

I mean, Michael J. Fox to the contrary notwithstanding, every living human has the inherent right to a defense. We don't execute capital criminals without trial. Even Fox is entitled to a defense. Why should it be open season on cloned infants?

That is what we are talking about, here. Fox and his friends may actually believe that cloning babies for the sake of slaughtering them in medical tests will make Fox all better, but that's not the real issue.

Even if they are right (and they're not), it isn't customary in the Free West to round up a class of people to dump them in the meat grinder so that someone who is sick will have a little hope of getting well.

Nobody is against research, per se. Research is a good thing, and we all promote it. But cloning babies isn't part of research. It is a business practice; producing a product to be bought and sold. Even our most Liberal judges have (as yet) refused to allow people to be considered "property", for fear that they may one day become someone else's property, too.

Yet, here we are, once again, required to debate the obvious. All our laws are based on the Golden Rule that Jesus proclaimed: "What you would not have others do to you, refrain from doing this to others." We agree to live under these laws, because we want others to live under them, too. It is a simple matter of self-defense.

Fox and these friends of his, on the other hand, want your baby dropped in a blender. Maybe Fox should jump in first, then we can have done with this issue?