The Big Idea: Mary G. Thompson

As the great Whitney Houston once sang, I believe the children are our future — but in Precious Children, author Mary G. Thompson posits a very different future with some very different children… and some very different stakes. MARY G. THOMPSON: What if you could guarantee that your precious child would never die? What parent, if they had the means, wouldn’t do everything possible to protect their child from all the dangers of the world, especially if those dangers were growing, if other people’s children were dying at alarming rates? And what if you could help society along the way, allowing people who couldn’t have children of their own to share in the joy of being a parent? Having yourself cloned four thousand times and adopting those children out to other families sounds like an act of charity, a benevolent gift from those who have to those who have not. If you need to take one or two of those children to provide a host body for the consciousness of your child, surely the hand of…