Cloning

The Church's View on Cloning In order to understand what is at issue in the debate and how the Catholic Church views the matter, we must first understand the procedure used in cloning. The first step was to gather the eggs and sperm and to put them in contact with each other in a glass dish for fertilization. Once fertilization occurred and the new embryos began development by dividing into two cells, the scientists intervened …

…beings in order to use them in scientific experimentation where they are treated as nothing more than disposable "biological material. It is also wrong to destroy voluntarily the "spare" embryos normally produced through "in vitro" fertilization or in any way to impose disproportionate risks upon the life of an embryo. In doing so, the researcher sets himself up as Master of the destiny of the human embryo, deciding who will live and who will die.