Yeah...but the guys who wrote that Catechism thing have no real training in bioethics, and no source documents from which to draw on, i.e. there's nothing in the Bible about IVF or embryos.
Why is the opinion of the Catholic Church anything more than just opinion that Catholics should accept for themselves, but not try to impose upon Jews or Protestants?
jas3
Anyone who talks about "that Catechism thing" would be most unlikely to accept God's word if it flashed forth in a bolt of lightning . . . but would be very likely (sad to say) to take the word of the latest "bioethicist" the NYTimes conjured up to rationalize some grim new fad in the death-culture. It's not hard to see how Peter Singer became the best known (and probably most renowned) bioethicist in America. The self-described conservatives are quite willing to jettison centuries of tradition and sign on to Brave New World whenever some shyster comes along preaching to them, "And Christopher Reeve shall walk again!"