MANILA, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Philippine Bishops’ Conference (PBC) has released a list of six reasons why, from the point of view of Christian morality, human cloning is inadmissible. “Cloning of human embryos cannot be justified, no matter how much good it might provide for humanity, persons affected with irreversible and incurable illnesses especially,” said Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi OP of Nueva Caseras, chairman of the PBC Office on Bio-ethics. The reasons listed by the bishops as report by Fides News agency are: 1. It is against nature to create an embryo artificially, without any connection with sexuality; 2. Cloning implicates the destruction of manipulated embryos. The embryo is already a human being; 3. Cloning of a human person is a technique which is devoid of spiritual dimension. 4. Cloning is against the dignity, uniqueness and originality of each person, and it reduces the person to an object; 5. Cloning violates the principles of equality and non discrimination, implicating the dominion of one person, the scientist, over an other, introducing selective-eugenic scheme. 6. Benefits cannot be used as a reason to justify inherently vitiated procedure.
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PHILIPPINE BISHOPS SPELL OUT REASONS FOR THE INADMISSIBILITY OF HUMAN CLONING
MANILA, Mar 9, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Philippine Bishops’ Conference (PBC) has released a list of six reasons why, from the point of view of Christian morality, human cloning is inadmissible. “Cloning of human embryos cannot be justified, no matter how much good it might provide for humanity, persons affected with irreversible and incurable illnesses especially,” said Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi OP of Nueva Caseras, chairman of the PBC Office on Bio-ethics. The reasons listed by the bishops as report by Fides News agency are: 1. It is against nature to create an embryo artificially, without any connection with sexuality; 2. […]
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