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To: KantianBurke; wagglebee
There have been several articles on FR talking about how scientists are developing ways to turn female eggs into sperm and vice versa. So down the road it could be conceivable for two women to "create" a kid with their own DNA.

Good that you used the term "create" instead of "procreate" because without the proper anatomical parts, it ain't gonna happen "naturally". That was the point of this article.

Scientiest have also realized that they can cull ova from aborted female fetuses. Then the psychological implications of such a move, set in. Offspring of such a match, when seeking to find their biological mother, would have to contend with the fact that she had never been born.


Neither is it valid to argue, as a justification for sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive, that a lesser evil is to be preferred to a greater one, or that such intercourse would merge with procreative acts of past and future to form a single entity, and so be qualified by exactly the same moral goodness as these. Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general. Consequently, it is a serious error to think that a whole married life of otherwise normal relations can justify sexual intercourse which is deliberately contraceptive and so intrinsically wrong.

HUMANAE VITAE
14 posted on 12/10/2006 2:37:35 PM PST by NYer (Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to Heaven. St. Rose of Lima)
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To: NYer
it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it

Nonsense. Soldiers in war (to take the most obvious example) do precisely that (kill so that their side can win) all the time.

810 posted on 12/12/2006 7:36:54 AM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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