The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has released a report on bioethics. It is an affirmation of Donum Vitae and another call for the fundamental dignity of the human person – especially at the initial stages of existence. Addressing fertility, abortion, cloning, hybridization, stem cells, gene therapy and other forms of genetic engineering, and various manipulations of the embryo:
The fulfillment of this duty implies courageous opposition to all those practices which result in grave and unjust discrimination against unborn human beings, who have the dignity of a person, created like others in the image of God. Behind every “no” in the difficult task of discerning between good and evil, there shines a great “yes” to the recognition of the dignity and inalienable value of every single and unique human being called into existence.
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