(A4c4a) immoral human reproduction

Immoral human reproduction includes cloning, in vitro fertilization, the creation of human beings for the purpose of conducting destructive embryonic research and the creation of human-animal hybrids called chimeras. ******* As of this date, 06-11-28, this folder contains 3 items. ******* item 1 BRITISH RESEARCHERS CAN USE EMBRYO SCREENING TO CREATE "DESIGNER BABIES" ******* item 2 BRITISH GOVERNMENT ALLOWS U.K. SCIENTISTS TO CLONE AND KILL UNBORN CHILDREN ******* item 3 OTTAWA TO REGULATE CONTROVERSIAL GENETIC TEST ************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 1 BRITISH RESEARCHERS CAN USE EMBRYO SCREENING TO CREATE "DESIGNER BABIES" ******* From: "LifeNews.com" ******* Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com. ******* London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Researchers in the United Kingdom have received the go-ahead to create cancer-free "designer babies." The British government's fertility watchdog agency is allowing a London clinic to screen embryos created by in vitro fertilization for genes that might lead to cancer. Four couples affected by bowel cancer are expected to start the procedure by year's end. One of the patients, an accountant for Bristol, hailed the decision, saying it will prevent cancer from being passed on to subsequent generations. But others are sharply criticizing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for trying to play God by killing human embryos that have a cancer gene. Critics note that there is a possibility that these unborn children would never develop cancer if they were permitted to be born. Josephine Quintavalle of the pro-life Comment on Reproductive Ethics responded to the Authority's latest decision by saying, "We are not thinking about curing the disease, but about eliminating the carrier. It is pretty shoddy medicine." The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has also been vocal in its opposition to so-called "designer babies." *********************************************************************************************************************** ******* item 2 BRITISH GOVERNMENT ALLOWS U.K. SCIENTISTS TO CLONE AND KILL UNBORN CHILDREN ******* Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 ******* Subject: LifeNews.com Pro-Life Report 8/13/04 #3332 ******* From: "Steven Ertelt" ******* For news updated throughout the day, visit http://www.lifenews.com ******* London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life activists say the British government has made a critical mistake in permitting human cloning for scientific experimentation. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given researchers at Newcastle University in northern England the go-ahead for the controversial research, in which human embryos cloned for their stem cells, then killed. "It is very worrying indeed," Josephine Quintavalle of the pro-life group Comment On Reproductive Ethics (CORE) told the British press. "No human life should be sacrificed for the benefit of anybody else, no matter how dramatic the promises are," she added. "In this case it (the embryo) is only going to live for 14 days, but that is because we are only allowing it to live for 14 days," Quintavalle said. "The pro-life position on the human embryo is that no matter how you created it, it is a human embryo, it is a member of the human species, and therefore it has as much right to life as anybody else." http://www.lifenews.com/bio419.html ******************************************************************************************************** ******* item 3 OTTAWA TO REGULATE CONTROVERSIAL GENETIC TEST ******* From: "Dianne Wood" via "Suzanne Fortin" ******* Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 ******* Health Canada plans to introduce regulations next May to govern what is now the uncontrolled use of a controversial test called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), CanWest News Service reported this week. But first it wants input from Canadians. ******* The PGD test involves the analysis of the cells of three-day-old human embryos to determine which might carry gene mutations and defects, including those associated with debilitating or possibly fatal inherited diseases such as Tay Sachs, hemophilia, and cystic fibrosis. ******* One or two of the embryos found to be without defect are then placed in the mother's womb when they are five days old, while some of the remaining healthy embryos are frozen, for use in the event that the couple decides to have another child. The "defective" embryos are normally thrown out or donated to research. ******* The test can also be used to select and create "saviour siblings," who, according to a Health Canada document to be posted on its website, "can then be used as a source of compatible tissue, either from umbilical cord blood or bone marrow, for the affected child." ******* PGD even has the potential of being used by parents to engineer "designer babies" who match a list of characteristics of their choosing. ******* Dr. Mark Hughes, director of Genesis Genetics Institute in Detroit, and a pioneer of PGD in the early 1990s, describes the procedure as "pruning" flawed genes from family trees. He told CanWest that couples seeking the test - for which the institute charges US$2,500 - do so mostly to avoid passing on a disease-causing gene to their future children. Or they may have had multiple miscarriages due to chromosomal abnormalities. "I don't care if you're a multi-billionaire, you don't want to go through this if you don't have to," said Hughes, whose patients include about 50 Canadian couples a year. ******* Health Canada is seeking feedback from Canadians on where to draw the line on PGD, especially since the list of diseases that it is able to reveal include those that will not appear until later in life, such as Huntington's disease or an increased susceptibility to cancer. "Is it justified," Health Canada reportedly asks, "to select against embryos for these conditions, especially if treatment or cure could be developed in the intervening time?" ******* But Dr. Albert Yuzpe, co-director of Genesis, a Vancouver-based fertility clinic that offers PGD, is more concerned about the cost involved. "I'd be very happy if [federal and provincial health departments] set it up so our patients could get it done for free." ******* Pro-lifers, meanwhile, see little or nothing that is morally acceptable about PGD. Although it barely seems to be an ethical issue in the secular debate on this topic, pro-life people point out that many embryos are being discarded for every one chosen to be implanted in the womb. "[It] involves the direct killing of children in their embryonic stage of development and, is in that sense, the same moral evil as abortion," says the American Life League. "Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis also has a eugenic dimension that hearkens back to the theme of Hitler's 1930s Nazi eugenics program - kill all those who fail to meet specific preconceived ideal." ********************************************************************************************************

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