While we Catholics and Christians—and all men and women throughout the world who embrace common sense, respect for human dignity and the immortality of the human soul—gasp in horror at newly released scientific experimentation, others trample on even the most basic of natural human ethical principles, those concerning human life itself. Here’s why. According to reports in the UK, “artificial human life could soon be grown from scratch in the lab, after scientists successfully created a mammal embryo using only stem cells.
“Cambridge University mixed two kinds of mouse stem cells and placed them on a 3D scaffold. After four days of growth in a tank of chemicals designed to mimic conditions inside the womb, the cells formed the structure of a living mouse embryo.”
The (CBJ ed note: self-proclaimed) “breakthrough” was has been described (CBJ ed. note: by whom?) as a ‘masterpiece’ in bioengineering, which could eventually allow scientists to grow artificial human embryos in the lab without the need for a sperm or an egg. (CBJ ed note: “artificial human embryos”–what does that even mean? you are either human, with a human soul, or you aren’t.)
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