{"id":210063,"date":"2017-08-05T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/gene-editing-poses-threat-of-eugenics-ethicist-warns-catholic-culture\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T10:24:14","slug":"gene-editing-poses-threat-of-eugenics-ethicist-warns-catholic-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/eugenics\/gene-editing-poses-threat-of-eugenics-ethicist-warns-catholic-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gene editing&#8217; poses threat of eugenics, ethicist warns &#8211; Catholic Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Catholic World News  <\/p>\n<p>    August 04, 2017  <\/p>\n<p>    The director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in England has    raised the alarm about recent experiments in genetic editing    of human embryos, saying that the procedure involves the    acceptance of eugenics.  <\/p>\n<p>    David Albert Jones remarked that the experiment also involved    the reproductive exploitation of women who contributed eggs    for the research and the experimentation on and destruction of    embryos in the process.  <\/p>\n<p>    While the genetic editing experiments have been hailed as a    means of preventing disease, Jones pointed out that the    procedure aims not to make people better but to make better    people. He explained that in the editing technique, a    modified embryo is created; since the embryo did not exist    before the modification, the procedure cannot be said to be    therapy.  <\/p>\n<p>    Jones warned: Instead of treating existing human beings in    ways that respect their rights and do not pose excessive risks    to them or to future generations, we are manufacturing new    human beings for manipulation and quality control, and    experimenting on them with the aim of forging greater eugenic    control over human reproduction  <\/p>\n<p>    References:  <\/p>\n<p>      Sound Off! CatholicCulture.org      supporters weigh in.    <\/p>\n<p>      All comments are moderated. To lighten our editing burden,      only current donors are allowed to Sound Off. 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