Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity," he said. [emphasis added]
I don't agree with any of this, but I can at least see where he's coming from with the embryo destruction. No artificial insemination, though? Why? Who is being "selected, abandoned, killed or used as pure 'biological material'" in that case? You'd think that the Church would look kindly upon it since it allows a new life to form where none would have otherwise been possible.
Artificial insemination? Really? (Score:1)
Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity," he said. [emphasis added]
I don't agree with any of this, but I can at least see where he's coming from with the embryo destruction. No artificial insemination, though? Why? Who is being "selected, abandoned, killed or used as pure 'biological material'" in that case? You'd think that the Church would look kindly upon it since it allows a new life to form where none would have otherwise been possible.