Fetal Soylent Green

I remember a movie from the `70`s called Soylent Green. In an overpopulated, starving future, an evil corporation (what else?) develops a new food source, a supposedly synthetic food called Soylent Green. In reality, old people are being ground into hamburger to feed the starving masses. The hero discovers the truth, and proclaims ``Soylent Green is people!``. At the time, this was a chilling concept.

Our friend Alnot chronicles a horrific new development, (which dovetails with my abortion argument below); fetal farming. Cloning may be illegal, but the implantation of a clone into a woman`s womb, then ``harvesting`` the fetus for stem cells, tissues, etc. before the child is brought to term is not, and we will be seeing much of this abomination in the near future.

How does this differ substantively from Soylent Green? We are creating a twin brother or sister (cloning is merely a mechanism for creating a twin) to a person, then chopping the as-yet unborn child up for body parts. We may not be physically eating them, in that we aren`t chewing and swallowing, but we are certainly consuming them. This is different from transplantation, where a willing transplantee (who has died, or who offers a body part freely) donates a piece of his or her body to help another person. This is the willful destruction of a powerless human being for the benefit and pleasure of another. It is cannibalism of the worst sort!

Soylent Green is People! So are cloned fetuses!