Clones Are Pro-Life

The House of the Scorpion becomes a warning lens for the real-world debate over cloning, organ harvesting, designer babies, and engineered human life. Therapeutic cloning is defended by some as a “pro-life” medical technology, while reproductive cloning, genetic modification, and embryo engineering raise darker questions about identity, ownership, and human dignity. When Epstein’s interest in eugenics and human engineering is placed beside modern biohacking, synthetic biology, digital brain modeling, and the growing idea that biology can be treated like software, the future begins to look less like medicine and more like the manufacturing of mankind as a species.