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All human beings must begin their existence in the form of a single cell organism, the single cell embryo.
Since the existence of that single cell embryo is, in the first place, the "sine qua non" for most of these illicit procedures to be possible, it is only logical that the law should prohibit the creation of any single cell human organism by any technique.
The formation of human/animal chimeras should also be banned. These prohibitions should be mandatory and perpetual regardless of the purported motives for the use of the technology, whether it be biological research or for therapeutic purposes.
Up to the present, laws have failed to prevent research on the human embryo for various reasons. These include the rapid change in technology and science, the fact that in many cases the law does not apply to private industry, and because of numerous loopholes in the law resulting from inconsistency, or obfuscation, or actual deception in the use of technical terms on the part of those who draft the laws.
The following are some examples of semantic loopholes occurring in so-called ‘authoritative’ sources, which may subsequently be reflected in legislation.
In the scientific literature of human embryology the words ‘human embryo’ mean a human organism which starts as "one cell at fertilization or cloning", and which at maturity consists of billions of cells.
Yet, in 1978, Grobstein and McCormick stated that only a “pre-embryo” exists before implantation in the uterus.
As soon as the non-scientific neologism “pre-embryo” was introduced, the word ‘embryo’ with its moral and emotional overtones began to fade from the scene. More recently, research workers have stated that an embryo is merely “a fertilized oocyte.”
Researches like Irving Weissman and Michael West have labeled the product of fertilization or of somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning as just a “cell”, and an embryo at 5-7 days as “a ball of cells.”
The product of this research was incorrectly defined. At the same time, they try to justify the use of the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer cloning as “therapeutic stem cell research.”
Here, the technique was incorrectly defined. The word ‘cloning’ with its pejorative overtones has disappeared.
“Therapeutic stem cell research” has been substituted. The aim is to get rid of words like ‘cloning’ and ‘embryo’ which make people ‘uncomfortable’.
The whole truth is that the immediate product of fertilization or cloning is a cell, but it is also "a single cell organism", a "human being", and a "human person".
In short, in order to prevent research on "human embryos" from occurring, in vitro fertilization by all methods must be generically prohibited in both public and private domains by law.
It is not enough simply to oppose abortion and research on human embryos.
If we are ever to succeed in outlawing "those two crimes against humanity", we must lay the axe to the root of the tree. We must vigorously and persistently oppose contraception (both surgical and chemical) and all forms of in vitro formation of human embryos, both by fertilization and by all cloning techniques.
Citat slut.
http://catholicinsight.com/online/bioethics/embryo.shtml
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Enoch