X-Message-Number: 31285
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: The Pope's objections to freezing embryos.
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:28:15 -0800

From "Dignatas Personae" (page 11):

http://www.usccb.org/comm/Dignitaspersonae/Dignitas_Personae.pdf


"Cryopreservation is incompatible with the respect owed to human embryos; it 
presupposes their production in vitro; it exposes them to the serious risk of 
death or physical harm, since a high percentage does not survive the process of 
freezing and thawing; it deprives them at least temporarily of maternal 
reception and gestation; it places them in a situation in which they are 
susceptible to further offense and manipulation."


The theologians who wrote this statement must have overlooked the part about 
sending embryos conceived and frozen today to the alienating world of the future
where they would lack "ties or relationships to that time," as Arthur Caplan 
warns. Otherwise, these objections sound kind of familiar.


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981). 


Mark Plus



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