What is genetic technology?!
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The Catholic Church teaches about genetic engineering:
In moral evaluation a distinction must be made between strictly <therapeutic> manipulation, which aims to cure illnesses caused by genetic or chromosome anomalies (genetic therapy), from manipulation <altering> the human genetic patrimony.
A curative intervention, which is also called ‘genetic surgery,’ ‘will be considered desirable in principle, provided its purpose is the real promotion of the personal well-being of the individual, without damaging his integrity or worsening his condition of life.
On the other hand, interventions which are not directly curative, the purpose of which is 'the production of human beings selected according to sex or other predetermined qualities,' which change the genotype of the individual and of the human species, 'are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being, to his integrity and to his identity.
Therefore they can be in no way justified on the pretext that they will produce some beneficial results for humanity in the future,' 'no social or scientific usefulness and no ideological purpose could ever justify an intervention on the human genome unless it be therapeutic, that is its finality must be the natural development of the human being.'
-- Charter for Health Care Workers, 12
Here is a site with official Church teaching on genetic engineering: http://www.marymeetsdolly.com/
Other articles:
http://www.the-tidings.com/2008/041108/b…
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