"Therapeutic" cloning creates embryos to kill them. Egg donors aren't honored as mothers fatherhood is nullified. They don't empty the petri dishes Saturday and start again Monday.Ĭloning disrupts the unbroken chain of mother-father procreation that has perpetuated the race since Creation. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.Ĭloning's abuse of life goes around the clock. They're not Sarah or Stephen they're steps on the way to SCNT-hES.ģ. It bears respect as a sign of the dignity of the one who bears it."Ĭloning strips dignity from embryos by creating and killing them without naming them, or even properly calling them human beings. (As a Catholic, I'll rely on the analysis of the Catholic Catechism for this one.) "God calls each one by name," says the catechism. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Is there a stranger god than a scientist who usurps the Creator by giving and taking life in a laboratory?Ģ. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. So, how does this square with the Ten Commandments? Take them in order:ġ. Frankenstein's monster lives-and soon will strain at its straps. Refine this process, and you can, as the researchers put it, "generate potentially unlimited sources of undifferentiated cells for research, with potential applications in tissue repair and transplantation medicine."Īn ailing body could be patched back together with pieces torn from its own clone. "When undifferentiated SCNT-hES-1 were injected into the testis of SCID mice," explained the researchers, the cells grew into tumors that included "differentiated" human muscle, bone and other tissue. This isn't science fiction it's in Science. Thirty died in embryo so SCNT-hES-1 could live-in the testicles of a mutant mouse, called a SCID, which lacks an immune system and thus won't reject human tissue. In just one, they managed to culture the stem cells, creating a "line." In the quest for SCNT-hES-1, they dismembered the embryos, trying to isolate their stem cells. Why did they kill these embryonic girls? To develop a line of cells they call "SCNT-hES-1." That stands for: Somatic cell nuclear transfer-human embryonic stem cells-1. (In Science, they mention that "overwhelming ethical constraints preclude any reproductive cloning attempts.") But the researchers did not create them to live they created them to die. In the womb, these girls could grow into babies. In 30, a cloned embryo-a little girl identical to her mother-began to develop. These were chemically treated to induce division. Researchers managed to "squeeze" the nucleus from 176 of these and replace it with the nucleus of another cell from the same donor. In Korea, 16 women volunteered for "ovarian stimulation." That yielded 242 human eggs. It just might break all Ten Commandments at once. But when I read the recent Science article describing how researchers in South Korea had cloned human embryos, it occurred to me that cloning might be the perfect sin. There are those who argue that "therapeutic" cloning-in which a human embryo is cloned and killed-is a great advancement for the human race.
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