Vatican City Essay, Research Paper

A Vatican panel issued a stinging condemnation of human cloning Tuesday and

warned against the misuse of genetic information. Human cloning, it said,

"represents a grave attack on the dignity of conception and on the right to

an unrepeatable, unpredetermined set of genes." The Pontifical Academy on

Life also warned that using genetic information to "suppress"

malformed or diseased embryos and fetuses amounts to a new form of

"selective eugenics." The statement came at the end of the academy’s

three-day conference at the Vatican. The report wrapped up a year of study on

the potential effects of current research into human genetics. The Vatican has

in the past called for a ban on human cloning and also forbids abortion. People

should be conceived and born "in a human way," it has said. In an

earlier report, the academy said human cloning would not result in identical

souls because only God can create a soul.