Charles Krauthammer Crossing Lines Analysis
Pulitzer Prize winner and renown columnist, Charles Krauthammer, analyzes the controversial topic of cloning; providing readers with an ethical perspective via explicit research and inquiry in his academic article, “Crossing Lines.” Taking an intellectual and pensive approach as he examines noteworthy ethical concerns beginning with the least complex—like the principle belief that life begins at conception; thus, the manipulation of an embryo is intentional disfiguration and maltreatment of an underdeveloped child—to the far more convoluted—such as applying the commandant, “thou shalt not kill” to the possibly of embryo mass production in the near future; where embryos will be readily disposed of once they’ve served their purpose. Krauthammer