Can cloned human babies be used for experiments and for growing spare parts, to help others?
This is what is called therapeutic cloning, as distinct from reproductive cloning. The clones are to be destroyed, and the living cells recuperated, within a certain number of days, usually 15. The principle here is very simple. The end does not justify the means. It is never permitted to do something evil, that good might come from it, for the goodness or evil of a human act is defined by its end, more than by anything else. Clones are true human beings, for they have an immortal soul, just as does a test-tube baby. The human soul is inseparable from the life of a human being, so that whenever the body is organized in such a way to have human life, the soul is present, as the principle of this life. Despite the immorality of the way in which test-tube babies are conceived, and the way in which genetic material of a clone is introduced into the nucleus of the ovum, once this has been done and there is human life, there is a human soul. If the cloned embryo is then frozen, the soul is n
