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Four Things You Can Do To Help Stop the Creation of Genetically-Modified Kids
Catholic Lane ^ | February 20, 2015 | Rebecca Taylor

Posted on 02/21/2015 3:38:33 PM PST by NYer

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Rebecca Taylor is a clinical laboratory specialist in molecular biology, and a practicing pro-life Catholic who writes at the bioethics blog Mary Meets Dolly. She has been writing and speaking about Catholicism and biotechnology for six years and is a regular on Catholic radio.

1 posted on 02/21/2015 3:38:33 PM PST by NYer
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To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 02/21/2015 3:38:50 PM PST by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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To: NYer

What could possibly go wrong?


3 posted on 02/21/2015 3:41:06 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: NYer

Trust me this is going to come bsck to kick them in the a$$. We know damn well what their real goal is. To create a human being with both sets of genitalia so the LGBT’ers dont have to adopt and create more freaks like themselves. Disgusting...


4 posted on 02/21/2015 3:44:03 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

God Forbid!


5 posted on 02/21/2015 3:44:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: bgill

Genetically modified children are fine as long as some of them are trained to be the assassins we need to cull the GMC’s that are too aggressive.

Anything to compete with Artificial intelligence.


6 posted on 02/21/2015 3:46:36 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: NYer; Darksheare; Monkey Face

2. Keep Darks and Pat out of the biology lab.


7 posted on 02/21/2015 3:46:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Wash, rinse, dry, put away.)
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To: bgill

Nothing at all. Science assures us.

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/creature-from-black-lagoon.jpg


8 posted on 02/21/2015 3:47:49 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: NYer

This is an abomination. How long can we mock God?

It doesn’t even really serve a purpose, it’s not gene therapy to fix a potentially incapacitating genetic illness, it’s simply people wanting to play Frankenstein.


9 posted on 02/21/2015 3:50:34 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: jsanders2001

That’s when God steps in and says, “Ok, everybody, out of the pool.”


10 posted on 02/21/2015 3:50:42 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

“as in the days of Noah”—possibly a time of deformed humans (an attempt to blur the image of God in mankind).


11 posted on 02/21/2015 3:58:28 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Tax-chick; NYer; Monkey Face

But chameleon like chromatophores would be cool!


12 posted on 02/21/2015 3:59:05 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: NYer

Hey, maybe we’ll get that blond hair, blue eyed master race after all! /s


13 posted on 02/21/2015 4:00:44 PM PST by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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“This is an abomination. How long can we mock God?”

Don’t worry. Seriously. We live in a small speck of the universe that is smaller, in a relative sense, than a grain of sand as compared to all the sand in all of the places that we can see with the most powerful telescopes we have. We are, in the context of God, pathetic. The totality of our knowledge is, pathetic. All of the money we’ve spent, and all of the hours, days, years, decades, centuries that we’ve been doing research has netted us a few more years of life in our finite lifetimes. We may progress from here, in fact, it would be pathetic if we didn’t progress from here, but to worry about us ‘mocking God’ is to give us more credit than we’ll deserve 10,000 years from now, at least.


14 posted on 02/21/2015 4:03:12 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: NYer

That is a very cool graphic.

It doesn’t reflect the specific topic here wherein, as the author sates, the procedure is similar to cloning.

The graphic more reflects gene therapy where a disease causing mutated gene is corrected at the DNA level to cure a disease.

That’s quite different and does not necessarily bring up ethical issues.


15 posted on 02/21/2015 4:19:36 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: NYer
What could go wrong?

"Ze fuhrer, he told us about you. That one day you vould arrive...Overman...you haf come at last..."

"Yes. You can go now..."


16 posted on 02/21/2015 4:20:21 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Born to Conserve

“Genetically modified children”

How about fourteen plus centuries of Muslim inbreeding?


17 posted on 02/21/2015 4:21:27 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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“Tell people that this technique has not been proven to be safe in animals or humans.”

That’s really the key.

This sort of manipulation leads to a lot of reproductive failures, I.e. Spontaneous abortion due to abnormal fetal development.

And the possibility of developmental problems in those who go full term and are born is very high.

My guess is this procedure would lead to more abortions in that the doctors would know well to look at possible developmental issues and check for problems via amniocentesis or other methods to abort any of these three way conceived babies if they see a problem.

And ultimately, this is experimenting on human beings.


18 posted on 02/21/2015 4:31:58 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: NYer

I’m willing to bet that a lot people who adamantly oppose generically-modified foods find this to be quite acceptable.

IMO, as a completely non religious individual, this is an abomination. With horrendous consequences down the line.

But they are going to do it.


19 posted on 02/21/2015 4:41:58 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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Amen.


20 posted on 02/21/2015 4:49:43 PM PST by Monkey Face (I tried everything for getting to sleep last night, except for closing the book and putting it down.)
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