Diana Schaub is against cloning in part because of what she’s learned watching Star Trek, which is, basically, that death is a part of the great circle of life:

The show has “left me receptive to the view that mortality is, if not precisely a good thing, then at least the necessary foundation of other very good things,” she wrote in an article last year. “There is something misguided about the attempt to overcome mortality.”

…”Both Lincoln and the Enterprise argue that there ought to be certain moral limits to the scientific project, and they help us articulate what those limits are.”

…Cloning is an evil,” she wrote in an article published in 2003. “It is slavery, plus abortion.”

This would be mildly loony and uninteresting except that she’s on the President’s Council on Bioethics, which advises President Bush.

[Thanks to Andrew McLaughlin for the link.]

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