The Immorality Of In Vitro Fertilization

[Rosalinda]

Dr. John B. Shea gives a succinct account of church teaching matched with the biological considerations and risks of this technique. If anyone still thinks cloning is only done using SCNT (somatic cell nuclear transfer) he points to many of the other methods.

…These include pronuclear, mitochondrial, germ-line nuclear transfer, germ-line gene transfer, germ-line recombinant DNA manipulation, and cloning that involves the use of artificially constructed genetic materials produced by nanotechnological methods. Yet another form of cloning involves deliberately splitting the embryo at the blastocyst stage, after which spontaneous epigenetic reprogramming may occur. This allows regulation of gene expression, which in turn changes the blastomere into a zygote, a human being. This kind of cloning occurs normally and spontaneously when an identical twin is conceived…

An eye-opener isn’t it?
From the National Catholic Bioethics Center, ethics and medics October issue

ncbcenter.org/em/0610-1.aspx