Re: your Oct. 26 In Brief article, "Up for discussion at CLU: cloning":
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
How appropriate for The Star to print California Lutheran University's information regarding human cloning so close to Halloween. For a "Christian" university to present a speaker who is expected to be a defender of a process that disrespects the human person is problematic, if not ghoulish.
Pence asks, "Who's afraid of human cloning?" My response is, "I am!" And so should you be, if human life is brought so low as to be an experiment in a Petri dish whose parts can be manipulated and extracted at the expense of the life that has been made.
I just watched an episode of "Numbers" dealing with cloning, and when the FBI agent says to the scientist who fathered the clone, "I am sorry for your loss," the scientist says, "I do not cry when I toss out a Petri dish, do I?" This is the cold disregard that is prevalent in the area of human stem cell science.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
-- Dorothy Hage, Newbury Park