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Why is clonning has so many controversion? Any ethicals views from Christian religion?

2007-05-02 21:36:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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For simplicity's sake, I'm assuming plant/animal/gene cloning, and not human.

-animals have a shorter lifespan
-increased chance of medical problems
-takes lots of money that could be better spent on other research
-may narrow rather than diversify the gene pool
-encourages use of genetically modified proteins, etc., for which we don't fully understand all the impacts yet

+preservation of severely endangered species
+produce plants/animals specifically designed to produce certain pharmeceudicals
+organ reproduction
+create somatic/stem cells for human patients
+learn more about biology, development, etc.

2007-05-02 23:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0 0

The Catholic Church has the highest regard for human life and human dignity from the beginning of life at conception until natural death.

Human cloning, that is the creation of a human embryo through scientific means, does injury to the dignity of humanity. Will these children be brought up in loving families or treated as laboratory experiments or sources for spare parts?

Every human being is entitled to human rights including cloned human embryos. If created, they should be treated with the same rights and respect of any other human being as a child of God.

The Catholic Church is not just against cloning, it is pro-life in the widest sense. This is often called a "Consistent Ethic of Life."

This pro-life stance stresses the highest regard for dignity of human life including that of:
- All people in objecting to unjust war and nuclear arms.
- The unborn in objecting to to abortion, in fitro fertilization, frozen embryos, embryonic stem cell research, and cloning
- The elderly, sick and dying in objecting to assisted suicide and euthanazia
- Prisoners in objecting to the death penalty
- The poor and minorities in supporting social justice issues.

With love in Christ.

2007-05-05 01:54:27 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1 0

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