Would the killing of a test tube or cloned baby be murder or not?

[djmc_72]

This thread was brought up during a parish/diocesan supported small group evangelization meeting. Is this considered murder? If a human created/designed from/in a test tube and carried in a human to birth and is killed before natural death, The creation was not from God, but by man from material from God. I would assume cloning and designer babies would fall into the same category in this sitation. What other things need to be considered?

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

If God doesn’t create the child, then who does—the test tube? Friend, God is just as much the creator here as He is in cases of rape and fornication. Just because humans have rearranged the way in which the child is conceived, the sperm and the egg are still created by God. As with conception in the womb, God still provides the soul as well as the body. This holds for cloning as well. Only God can create a soul, which is the life principle of the body. No matter how a human being comes into existence, God will always have been its creator.

Certainly to kill such a person is to take innocent human life, which is ALWAYS a mortal sin.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.