Chap 23: Health Care and Cloning

Becoming one Body: Health Care and Cloning
M. Therese Lysaught

How should Christians respond to the issue of cloning. One part of the answer is related to the peculiar way Christians treat their children--they baptize them.

Cloning and Its Ends. Lysaught summarizes the debate and the pros and cons of human cloning and ends with this: "… cloning promises to be the Holy Grail, that which will perfect human life."

Cloning and Its Bio-utopia. The underlying story of science and "progress" providing a means to utopia, in this case a bio-utopia. 

That Peculiar Practice Called Baptism. The meaning of baptism as it relates to children.

Baptism: The End of Cloning. How baptism symbolizes our relationship to the Church, to God, and to parents. It is a way of demonstrating that our children are not the parent's, but God's. 

Charles Eklund 2018