Sorry, you'll have to settle for this:
Cheers!
Posted on 05/20/2007 11:17:38 PM PDT by monomaniac
Bishop Sgreccia Says British Decision Offends Dignity
VATICAN CITY, MAY 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official lamented a British government decision to drop its opposition to forming hybrid animal-human embryos for stem cell research.
Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said Thursday's decision to reject a proposed ban on the process is offensive to human dignity.
The creation of a hybrid animal-human embryo has been banned by everyone in the biotechnology field, until now -- and not just by religious groups," Bishop Sgreccia said. "This is because human dignity is compromised and offended and monstrosities will be created from these inseminations.
"It is true that these embryos are suppressed and the cells taken out, but the creation of an animal-human being represents a natural border that has been violated, the most grave of violations."
"In an interview with Vatican Radio, he called for a complete moral condemnation of the practice, "in the name of reason and in the name of justice and science, which must be maintained for the well being of the person and respect for human nature."
Uncalculated consequences
Bishop Sgreccia said he hopes that the international scientific community continues to hold the line, to defend "the conservation and respect of the species."
"The human individual has not been respected because embryos are destroyed and sacrificed in many ways, as in the case of these artificial inseminations," the 78-year-old bishop said. "But the line between the species had always been respected. Now, this barrier too has been broken and the consequences have not been calculated.
"The fact is that there was no reason to do this. If they are looking for stem cells in order to cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, there is no need to create a hybrid animal-human embryo, because there are adult stem cells, and stem cells in umbilical cords and those in the adult male to be able to battle these frontiers in faith."
"The scientist who is only worried about advancing his research does not take into consideration the anthropological and philosophical factors, like respect for nature and the natural order.
"There is a thirst for knowledge that must be maintained inside certain limits, a thirst to experiment that can upset the moral sense of the one carrying out the experiments, if he is not controlled by a sense of balance and human reason."
There are some things that “just aren’t right”...this is one of them.
Abomination
At least if they are going through with this. Come up with some thing that looks like Kathy Ireland, but only wants to lay in my lap and fetch beers.
Sorry, you'll have to settle for this:
Cheers!
The creation should at least have the right to sue its creator.
WHAT IS THE LAW???
Only people who have no idea of who they are would think up a thing like this. If they can’t see the immense gulf between the highest animal and the lowest human, they are not sane.
A human-animal hybrid? How about a man-horse? Sounds like an opportunity to create an unlimited pool of (really) cheap labor. Maybe we can train it to do jobs that Americans just won’t do?
If it can be done there is some idiot who want to give’er a try to see what he gets.
This should be outlawed,but of course it wont be.
I can say the same about some human-human inseminations, many of them in Hollywood.
I think that we are heading for evil times. It just seems that on every front of culture, religion, law, education and any other measure of our life that we are threatened by the people that "know what's good for you".
Even their hypocrisy is held in honor as a "sacrifice" they have to make in order to "deliver a message" to us.(the little people)
Nope..........Mexican
"VATICAN CITY, MAY 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official lamented a British government decision to drop its opposition to forming hybrid animal-human embryos for stem cell research."
It surprises me not that they have dropped their opposition. Once one gets away from God, as the entire British Government has, there are no moral limits because morals are relative to each man personally.
"'It is true that these embryos are suppressed and the cells taken out, but the creation of an animal-human being represents a natural border that has been violated, the most grave of violations.'"
Human life has already been disregarded in so many areas. Embryos are destroyed for research, cloned for research, and disposed of when not inseminated at times. The Chinese are killing people for organs, mainly prisoners who oppose their Communist agenda. Children are aborted in the womb for a multitude of reasons, one being their personal health. People push for assisted suicide and euthanasia. People have been killed against their wills. Now, science is degrading human life in the image of God by mixing it with the life of animals which will ultimately give us some monstrous creatures if successful and possibly introduce disease further into the human population. Yet, science won't stop. They won't admit they set down a wrong trail. They refuse to turn back. They continue to go down the trail, as their desire for "knowledge" and fame have clouded their concern for the very people they are supposed to be helping.
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