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"Cloning risks being the tragic parody of God's omnipotence." - Pontifical Academy for Life,

Cloning humans...

"My child, there is also one thing I wish to discuss with you for the world, for all of the world's children to know, how Heaven feels about their diabolical search for life in a test tube. Yes, My child, I know this shocks you, but you are fully aware of what is going on. Your news medias seem to enjoy putting these evils before your eyes and your ears and your readings. Yes, We frown upon surrogate mothers. We shall not tolerate the making of children from one to the other.
     "The sacrament of Marriage was given for the union of man and woman in love and godliness. There is nothing godly about a man who sets himself up to play God and starts revolving innocent—I prefer to call My children innocent, because in that way I do not refuse them even penance for their sins— but they must know that you cannot bring life in a test tube. This will not be accepted by Heaven.
     "These children are not conceived by the Holy Ghost, the spirit within them at the moment of conception, because their conception is from a test tube, and an instrument of a so-called doctor upon earth. He is a doctor, not of divinity but of sin....
     "Therefore, My children, I must tell you this, there will be a major war between the right and the wrong side, the left and the right, over this issue. We will not have test tube babies, for they are not born with a soul. They can only, then, be called a 'thing', a 'creature' unknown. Is this what you want, My children? Is this what you want of these children you bear for another? To give them as though you were machines, manufacturing them for another?" - Jesus, June 18, 1987

The Washington Post on November 26, 2001 reported:

Reacting to the news that the scientists had cloned a six-cell embryo, the Vatican said that the event "moves us to restate with force that the beginning of human life cannot be fixed by convention at a certain stage of embryonic development; it takes place, in reality, already at the first instant of the embryo itself."
     "Thus, despite the declared 'humanistic' intentions by those who predict sensational cures via this path ... what is needed is a calm but firm judgment which shows the moral gravity of this plan and which motivates an unequivocal condemnation," said the Vatican statement.

The topic of cloning has existed for decades. Ever since the determination of the structure of DNA by Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953, the topic has been discussed widely, in scientific and informal debate, in movies, and in books, such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in which humans were cloned to perform specific tasks in society. Imagination has not been lacking, only the technology.

EUGENICS
To understand more fully the ideological drive behind the cloning movement, one must first be familiar with eugenics, a word coined by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. An excellent summary of eugenics and its history is summed up in an article entitled "Introduction to Eugenics" by John Cavanaugh-O'Keefe.[1] Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling reproduction. Galton believed that the proper evolution of the human race was impeded by philanthropic outreach to the poor when such efforts encouraged them to bear more children. Charity upset the mechanism of natural selection. Therefore, what the human race needed was a kind of artificial selection: eugenics.

In 1970, I.I. Gottesman, a director of the American Eugenics Society, stated:

"The essence of evolution is natural selection; the essence of eugenics is the replacement of 'natural' selection by conscious, premeditated, or artificial selection in the hope of speeding up the evolution of 'desirable' characteristics and the elimination of undesirable ones."

Shortly after the turn of the century, the American Journal of Eugenics advertised itself by noting that it was "formerly known as Lucifer the Light Bearer." Eugenics has certainly carried with it a religious dimension, an ideological outlook. Galton suggested that it should function as a religion, a sentiment echoed by George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell and others. Julian Huxley, the first Director-General of UNESCO stated:

The word religion is often used restrictively to mean belief in gods; but I am not using it in this sense... I am using it in a broader sense, to denote an overall relation between man and his destiny, and one involving his deepest feelings, including his sense of what is sacred. In this broad sense, evolutionary humanism, it seems to me, is capable of becoming the germ of a new religion, not necessarily supplanting existing religions but supplementing them.

The work of eugenicists includes promoting birth control, restricting immigration, sterilizing the handicapped, promoting euthanasia, and seeking ways to increase the number of genetically well-endowed individuals. Hitler is perhaps the most notorious historical figure to have embraced eugenics, in his quest to establish the "Master Race." Yet eugenicists outside of Germany failed to criticize Hitler's actions. In fact, the U.S. Birth Control Review publication praised the effectiveness of the Germans. The eugenics movement did not die with Hitler, but rather continued to thrive without reform. Advances in the field of genetics and the promotion of birth control on a wide scale were great victories for the eugenics movement. Beginning in the 1960s, a few members of the Eugenics Society built and controlled almost the entire private abortion industry.

The impact of eugenic ideology can be illustrated by the tragic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, legalizing abortion in the United States. Supreme Court Justice Blackmun lifted the majority of his pro-abortion argument from a book by Professor Glanville Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law. Williams was a member of the Eugenics Society. In an editorial from Human Life International:

Human cloning has nothing to do with privacy or autonomy or women's rights. To understand the [cloning] debate, you have to find and understand some other power base in Washington, some other movement some other ideology. There is a powerful force in the nation dealing with issues of human reproduction, other than pro-lifers and feminists.
     There is a name for the people who want to proceed with human cloning. They are eugenicists. Most people have never heard of eugenics, and the few who do recall the technical name for Hitler's race ideas generally believe that his destructive proposals died in the rubble of Berlin. But for over a century, the eugenics movement has worked hard to improve the human race, by social control of reproduction, and no part of their program has ended. [2]

THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
Professor George Annas of Boston University said some years ago that modern genetics is eugenics. But he argued that modern eugenics is benign, unlike the Nazi program, because it is decentralized. The Nazis wanted a perfect society, and we want a perfect baby. Presently, a massive propaganda campaign is underway boasting of the vast "humanitarian" benefits of cloning to make the issue more palatable, less shocking to natural sensibilities. Members from both the American Society of Human Genetics (founded by Franz J. Kallman) and the American Eugenics Society promoted, developed and led the multi-billion dollar Human Genome Project, which has been called the greatest scientific venture in the history of mankind: "This is the most important organized scientific effort that mankind has ever attempted," says Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project at the Nation Institutes of Health outside Washington, D.C. "It dwarfs going to the moon."[3] This catalog of the human genome, the genetic blueprint for all of humankind, has now been completed:

"It's like building the periodic table for chemistry," Collins said. "We will have built the periodic table for human biology, but then we'll have to figure out how these genes all interact with each other in health and disease."[4]

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE
"Will designing our offspring someday be as easy and common as 'cut and paste' on a word processor?"[5] asks Jonathan Cohen in an article in the Hastings Center Report. With the completion of the Human Genome Project and reported success in human cloning experiments, the answer is a resounding 'yes.' In 1993 Dr. Jerry Hall in Washington, D.C. stunned the world having already cloned human embryos by artificial twinning--separating each ball of cells into several. All were destroyed. In August 1999 "Jose Cibelli from Advanced Cell Technology made headlines across America after telling us that he had cloned himself in 1996 using a cow's egg (the embryo was destroyed. That's before Dolly was even born in Britain.)"[6] The utilitarian argument that the destruction of human embryos is acceptable, provided there is medical progress as a result, is gaining ground. Without the rudder of objective morality, such will be the unfortunate consensus of a culture that worships science and technology, false idols of the Western world.

Cloning technology has quickly become big business. When Dolly the sheep was cloned, the stock value of PPL Therapeutics (the firm responsible for cloning Dolly) rose by over $60 million. Another company, the Geron Corporation, has developed a technology which allows cells to keep replicating. With this technology, the company says that they will be able to grow new human tissue capable of repairing heart muscle, bones, nerves, skin and eyes. But, this process involves stem cells: "Stem cells are capable of becoming almost any cell in the body and Geron has patented a process for harvesting and developing them.... Years of research and development lie ahead, the company cautioned, before patients might tap into warehouses of human repair parts."[7] Interestingly enough, the Geron Corporation recently bought Roslin Bio-Med (formerly PPL Therapeutics), the company formed by the Scottish scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep. But some companies have even more ambitious plans:

Human cloning is moving to Japan, according to Dr. Richard Seed. His group has raised $15 million human cloning cash and bought land in Hokkaido, an island in Northern Japan. The human cloning group's Tokyo consultant James Ryan says the facilities will open in August 1999 for infertile couples. They expect around 500 baby human clones a year.[8]

Richard Seed, a Chicago scientist, announced he wants to clone a human being before Congress can ban the procedure:

"What reprogramming DNA actually means is that we can talk about life extension [conquering the aging process] without being laughable. ... Each person becomes capable of assuming Godlike characteristics and indefinite life and knowledge," Seed said.[9]

"And you shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) Sound familiar? Such a candid statement by Dr. Seed is refreshing, in one sense: it illustrates the complete absence of any moral misgivings present in many scientists. Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice-president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, responded forcefully to Dr. Seed's plans to open a human-cloning center in Chicago. The bishop noted that the drive towards human cloning demonstrates "a sort of will to replace God's design in an arbitrary and complete manner, so that man creates a man in his own image and likeness."[10] As noted by the Pontifical Academy, "Cloning risks being the tragic parody of God's omnipotence."[11]

MORAL GUIDANCE FROM THE CHURCH
Most articles on the cloning issue will capture the topic in the catch-all net of utilitarianism, that of the greatest good for the greatest number according to the manner of this world's thinking. Outside the statements made by the Catholic Church, you will be hard pressed to find an article that uses the phrase "intrinsically evil" in association with human cloning. What you will probably find are articles emphasizing the potential "good uses" of human cloning. For example, philosophy professor Kelly Smith of the College of New Jersey emphasizes the potential benefits of cloning for the treatment of Parkinson's disease: "... it could be argued that it would be less ethically problematic to kill a 16-cell organism [clone] than a two month-old fetus," Smith surmises. "A 16-cell fetus has no nervous system, no heart. I'm not endorsing this, but there's the potential for arguing that those two fetuses are very different."[12] These views we would perhaps expect from Dr. Frankenstein, but a philosophy professor? Yet views such as Smith's are not unique. The Church has been prompt to respond with moral guidance. The Pontifical Council for the Family has declared:

The 'human cloning' project represents the terrible aberration to which value-free science is driven and is a sign of the profound malaise of our civilization, which looks to science, technology and the 'quality of life' as surrogates for the meaning of life and its salvation.[13]

Pope John Paul II on February 7, 1999 proclaimed in his Angelus address: "I have received the declaration against human cloning signed by many university teachers in Rome. In expressing my satisfaction with their strong condemnation of human cloning, I wish to encourage university teachers to continue developing a new culture of human rights and to defend the human person, from his conception, from anything that violates his dignity."[14] Furthermore, on October 23, 1982, he forcefully stated, "I condemn, in the most explicit and formal way, experimental manipulations of the human embryo, since the human being, from conception to death, cannot be exploited for any purpose whatsoever."

CLONING RUPTURES FAMILY RELATIONS
Testifying before a United States Senate Subcommittee hearing on human cloning in June of 1997, John S. Bonnici stated, "Human cloning technology seeks to replicate the person without one individual having to enter into relation with another. This dynamic contradicts man as a social being. Furthermore, without relations with others each individual cloned is suddenly unable to truly live and develop one's gifts. This unnatural act comes at great cost. The potential for a well-ordered and prosperous society is no longer anticipated. The family-the original cell of social life-is compromised by the unnatural objective associated with human cloning."[15]

CONCLUSION
From Reflections on Human Cloning by the Pontifical Academy for Life, in the L'Osservatore Romano, July 9, 1997: "In the cloning process the basic relationships of the human person are perverted: filiation, consanguinity, kinship, parenthood." Of course, this technological mastery over human genetics forebodes of technological tyranny: "When techniques exist to produce designer genes, and thereby designer children, cloning is just the next step towards defining children as a commodity."[16] The cloning issue represents merely the latest attempt of scientists to "manufacture their own moral universe."[17] To pro-life forces, the cloning movement represents the next great threat to the dignity of human life, as well as the unity of the family.

The amazing Bayside Prophecies say:

ARTIFICIAL MEANS
"Man shall not seek to create life by artificial means, for you destroy the very nature of your humanity.  And you shall receive for such actions a just punishment, in chastisement from the Eternal Father." - Our Lady, October 6, 1979

SOULLESS
"You seek to create as the Creator! You have reached the point of the fallen angels. You will create in the jar a monster, for it will be soulless! Your arrogance and superiority will be your own destruction, you who seek to take the place of your Father! My children, recognize the path you are falling on." -Our Lady, December I, 1972

UNION OF FLESH
"The act of the union of the flesh was created as the means for the propagation of life upon your earth.... The union of the flesh will produce as the Father has deemed it." -Our Lady, May 10, 1972

GOD'S LAWS
"Understand, My children, that science cannot go above the laws of his God." -Our Lady, April 1, 1972

POWER OF CREATION
"You wander about now in your earth, man of science, seeking to reach the gates of the eternal Kingdom. Man of science, in his arrogance, seeking to create life. I say unto you: no man shall take the power of creation into his hands, for he will destroy himself." -Jesus, February 1, 1977

SEEKING
"My children, because of sin, insanity is now encompassing the minds of men; satan has poisoned many minds. Scientists are ever seeking but never coming to the truth! Scientists are trying to create a life that is not in any way the nature of mankind. Man is seeking and shall destroy his nature." -Our Lady, June 4, 1977

Directives from Heaven... http://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D23 - Abortion PDF
D55 - Test-Tube Babies  PDF
D142 - Sin of Omission  PDF
D195 - Cloning    PDF
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Articles...

Vatican rules out adoption of frozen embryos
http://www.tldm.org/News12/VaticanRulesOutAdoptionOfFrozenEmbryos.htm

Bill to ban human-animal hybrid creation introduced in Congress
http://www.tldm.org/News12/BillToBanHuman-AnimalHybrids.htm

UK Parliament approve human/animal hybrid clones
http://www.tldm.org/News11/UKParliamentApprovesHumanAnimalHybrids.htm

Western Australia rejects clone and kill bill
http://www.tldm.org/News11/WesternAustraliaRejectsCloneAndKillBill.htm

References:

1. EWTN, http://www.ewtn.
2. "Cloning Debate: Glimpse of the Future," Human Life International website (www.hli.org).
3. James Schreeve, Secrets of the Gene," National Geographic, October 1999, p. 55.
4. Anthony Quinn, "Human Genome Project Nearing Completion," June 10, 1999, Reuters.
5. Jonathan R. Cohen, "In God's Garden: Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought," Hastings Center Report, July - August 1999, p. 7.
6. "Human Cloning News," [http://www.globalchange.com/clonelatimes.htm], August 27, 1999.
7. Don Knapp, "Cell scientists hope to grow human spare parts," CNN news website, May 22, 1999.
8. "Human Cloning Moves to Japan," Guardian, 2 December, 1998, [http://www.globalchange.com/clonejapan.htm].
9. Sharisa M. Staples, "Should the U.S. ban human cloning?", Washington Post, February 18, 1998.
10. "Bishop calls for urgent action against cloning," January 9, 1998, Catholic World News service.
11. Pontifical Academy for Life, Reflections on Human Cloning.
12. Christopher Mario, "A Spark of Science, a Storm of Controversy," U.S. 1 Newspaper, March 5, 1997. Princeton University, New Jersey.
13. Pontifical Academy for Life, Reflections on Human Cloning.
14. Pope John Paul II, "New Culture of Life Must Be Developed," Angelus Address, February 7, 1999.
15. John S. Bonnici, S.T.D., "Cloning Technology and the Traditional Family," U.S. Capital Room SC-5 (June 24, 1997).
16. Steven L. Kellmeyer, "Designer Genes," Lay Witness, September 1999, p. 38.
17. quoted from Robert P. George, "The Supreme Court 1997: A Symposium," First Things, October 1997, p. 28.

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