Human Cloning

God created us in His image. No wonder why we are a creative explorer. We've gone too far in terms of science and technology which quicken our productivity that leads us to be dependable.

But side by side with the technological mileage and scientific advances, we explore even the things that are morally illicit, the human cloning, which has a larger negative effect than positive, which is nothing but another version of pre-emptying God's mystery on pro-creation that was once broken by Adam and Eve which had already been waged and absolved through the Blood of Christ who's not the offender. The world was already about to be uprooted but because of that absolution of mercy, here we are living naturally.

Yes, the original sin was the start of human reproduction but until now it's still a mystery how beautiful is the complete picture of God's plan for men on earth without that infidelity. We live in the imperfect world because of the imperfect beginning which had already been cut at the time of the Messianic event. From that time on up to this time, we never change doing different version of unlawful pro-creation: pre-marital sex, polygamous marriage, unwanted baby through prostitution, paid babymaking.

The only positive one that can looked into on artificial fertilization would be for infertile couples desiring to have a child; the other reasons involve human experimentation which evidently are not considered. 

In the cloning process, one of the parents would be cloned to satisfy need of reproduction. The subsequent issue while on pursuit would be, "Who among the partners will decide to partake the experiment," "What happens if separation occurs after which, does the  mother still entitled of her right, but what if the father was the one cloned?"

Science and technology have beneficial linkage in our society which God appreciates because indeed we’ve been exploring the earth and multiply. However, having this freedom should not be an excuse to be negligent on on what is beautiful and acceptable. Does it conform to the benefit of the entire recipients and most of all, does it comply to the social standards of the Divine Will?

God respects human standards but not those that are focused on self-centeredness but on communal progress that is adherent to purity and love. God respects our creativity of knowledge but we should also respect the creativity of His divinity and superiority through natural fertility, through natural union, through natural conception.

2 Peter 3:3-7 Know this first of all, that in the last days, scoffers will come to scoff, living according to their own desires and saying "Where is the promise of His coming? From the time when our ancestors fell asleep, everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation." They deliberately ignore the fact that the heavens existed of old and earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God; through these the world that then existed was destroyed, deluged with water. The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and of destruction of the godless.

2 Timothy 3:5 But understand this: “There will be terrifying times in the last days. People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Reject them.”

Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple (donation of sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus), are gravely immoral. These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage. They betray the spouses' "right to become a father and a mother only through each other.

Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. 

Such a relationship of domination is in itself contrary to the dignity and equality that must be common to parents and children.""Under the moral aspect procreation is deprived of its proper perfection when it is not willed as the fruit of the conjugal act, that is to say, of the specific act of the spouses' union .  Only respect for the link between the meanings of the conjugal act and respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation in conformity with the dignity of the person."

A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The "supreme gift of marriage" is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged "right to a child" would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right "to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents," and "the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception."

The Gospel shows that physical sterility is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite themselves with the Lord's Cross, the source of all spiritual fecundity. They can give expression to their generosity by adopting abandoned children or performing demanding services for others.