[Mrs. Frogjerk]

You are not to interfere with God's handy work at all. We aren't supposed to manipulate an unborn child in any way. Catholics aren't just against that kind of bioengineering because it may kill the unborn, we are against it because we are not to interfere with God's plan for any given individual.

"I knew you before you were born" I cannot pinpoint where this quote is from in the Bible, but it is there, check it out.

[ivyleaguebrat]

Not to disrespect Catholics or minimize the issue, but there's something I don't understand..

Presumably, Catholics are not against indoor plumbing.. or cough syrup.. or telephones.. Couldn't one make the argument that God's plan was for us to to get our water from the local river, to deal with our colds until they go away, and to talk to each other face to face?

I would imagine a Catholic might say "Well God designed us with the capacity to overcome distance and disease through inventing indoor plumbing, cough syrup and telephones."

Why might He not have intended us to overcome birth defects through the above-mentioned hypothetical zygote-preserving engineering?

For that matter, couldn't he have intended the invention of condoms as well?