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1 Fw | initial phase of the life of a human being and in the very processes
2 Fw | teaching on the dignity of human life as it originates and
3 Fw | subject respect for the human being from the first moment
4 Fw | technical interventions on human procreation; the third part
5 Fw | terms of the respect due to human embryos and foetuses* and
6 Fw (*) | of the development of a human being. The present Instruction
7 Fw (*) | whether visible or not) of human generation, from the first
8 Intro,1 | unforeseeable consequences, over human life at its very beginning
9 Intro,1 | values and rights of the human person be safeguarded. Requests
10 Intro,1 | especially in relation to human life and its beginnings.
11 Intro,1 | of life - that God gives human beings his commandments
12 Intro,2 | TECHNOLOGY ~AT THE SERVICE OF THE HUMAN PERSON ~God created man
13 Intro,2 | meaning of existence and of human progress. Being ordered
14 Intro,2 | be at the service of the human person, of his inalienable
15 Intro,3 | idea of the nature of the human person in his bodily dimension. ~
16 Intro,3 | his true nature that the human person can achieve self-realization
17 Intro,3 | with a spiritual soul, the human body cannot be considered
18 Intro,3 | spiritual nature of the human person. Therefore this law
19 Intro,3 | an intervention on the human body affects not only the
20 Intro,3 | Association when he said: "Each human person, in his absolutely
21 Intro,3 | at the improvement of the human biological condition".(11)~
22 Intro,3 | for the integral good of human life when they come to the
23 Intro,3 | procreation and on the origin of human life. These interventions
24 Intro,3 | reference to the dignity of the human person, who is called to
25 Intro,4 | techniques of artificial human procreation are two: the
26 Intro,4 | are two: the life of the human being called into existence
27 Intro,4 | nature of the transmission of human life in marriage. The moral
28 Intro,4 | with which the course of human life in the world begins,
29 Intro,4 | inviolability of the innocent human being's right to life "from
30 Intro,4 | universe, the transmission of human life has a special character
31 Intro,4 | the special nature of the human person. "The transmission
32 Intro,4 | person. "The transmission of human life is entrusted by nature
33 Intro,4 | fundamental values of life and of human procreation is therefore
34 Intro,4 | technological interventions on a human being from the first stages
35 Intro,5 | of the Church offers to human reason in this field too
36 Intro,5 | conception, the life of every human being is to be respected
37 Intro,5 | the image of the Creator. Human life is sacred because from
38 Intro (18)| At the origin of each human person there is a creative
39 Intro,5 | destroy directly an innocent human being. (20) Human procreation
40 Intro,5 | innocent human being. (20) Human procreation requires on
41 Intro,5 | of God; (21) the gift of human life must be actualized
42 Intro (22)| drawn from the nature of the human person and human acts, criteria
43 Intro (22)| of the human person and human acts, criteria which respect
44 Intro (22)| of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context
45 I | I RESPECT FOR HUMAN EMBRYOS ~Careful reflection
46 I | technical interventions upon the human being in the first phases
47 I,1 | WHAT RESPECT IS DUE TO THE HUMAN EMBRYO, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT
48 I,1 | NATURE AND IDENTITY? ~The human being must be respected -
49 I,1 | interventions upon embryos and human foetuses. The aims pursued
50 I,1 | to experimentation upon human embryos for the purpose
51 I,1 | status" is used - of the human embryo itself . ~At the
52 I,1 | Holy See, confirmed that "Human life must be absolutely
53 I,1 | concerning the beginning of human life, concerning the individuality
54 I,1 | the individuality of the human being and concerning the
55 I,1 | concerning the identity of the human person. The Congregation
56 I,1 | rather the life of a new human being with his own growth.
57 I,1 | It would never be made human if it were not human already.
58 I,1 | made human if it were not human already. To this perpetual
59 I,1 | begun the adventure of a human life, and each of its great
60 I,1 | needed, by recent findings of human biological science which
61 I,1 | biological identity of a new human individual is already constituted.
62 I,1 | of science regarding the human embryo provide a valuable
63 I,1 | this first appearance of a human life: how could a human
64 I,1 | human life: how could a human individual not be a human
65 I,1 | human individual not be a human person? The Magisterium
66 I,1 | unchangeable.(26)~Thus the fruit of human generation, from the first
67 I,1 | that is morally due to the human being in his bodily and
68 I,1 | spiritual totality. The human being is to be respected
69 I,1 | right of every innocent human being to life. This doctrinal
70 I,1 | the same way as any other human being as far as medical
71 I,2 | integrity of the embryo and the human foetus and is directed towards
72 I (27) | an authentic respect for human beings and the uprightness
73 I (27) | if, as often happens in human choices, a degree of risk
74 I,3 | PROCEDURES CARRIED OUT ON THE HUMAN EMBRYO LICIT? ~As with
75 I,3 | procedures carried out on the human embryo which respect the
76 I,4 | AND EXPERIMENTATION* ON HUMAN EMBRYOS AND FOETUSES? ~
77 I,4 | respected just like any other human person; experimentation
78 I (*) | given phenomenon in the human field or at verifying a
79 I (*) | any research in which the human being (in the various stages
80 I,4 | advantage to science, to other human beings or to society, can
81 I,4 | experimentation on living human embryos or foetuses, whether
82 I,4 | even their death. To use human embryos or foetuses as the
83 I,4 | against their dignity as human beings having a right to
84 I,4 | already born and to every human person. ~The Charter of
85 I,4 | Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental
86 I,4 | manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo".(30) The practice
87 I (29) | experimental manipulations of the human embryo, since the human
88 I (29) | human embryo, since the human being, from conception to
89 I,4 | practice of keeping alive human embryos in vivo or in vitro
90 I,4 | purposes is totally opposed to human dignity. In the case of
91 I,4 | licit (31) ~The corpses of human embryos and foetuses, whether
92 I,4 | as the remains of other human beings. In particular, they
93 I,5 | FERTILIZATION 'IN VITRO'? ~Human embryos obtained in vitro
94 I,5 | embryos obtained in vitro are human beings and subjects with
95 I,5 | It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to be exploited
96 I,5 | against the life of these human beings. It is a duty to
97 I,5 | voluntary destruction of human embryos obtained 'in vitro'
98 I,5 | death and kills defenceless human beings. ~Methods of observation
99 I,5 | the same reasons. every human being is to be respected
100 I,5 | deliberately to expose to death human embryos obtained 'in vitro'.
101 I,6 | WITH THE "TECHNIQUES OF HUMAN REPRODUCTION"? ~Techniques
102 I,6 | genetic manipulation of human embryos, such as attempts
103 I,6 | for fertilization between human and animal gametes and the
104 I,6 | gametes and the gestation of human embryos in the uterus of
105 I,6 | artificial uteruses for the human embryo. These procedures
106 I,6 | procedures are contrary to the human dignity proper to the embryo,
107 I,6 | hypotheses for obtaining a human being without any connection
108 I,6 | opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal
109 I,6 | against the respect due to human beings by exposing them
110 I,6 | but are aimed at producing human beings selected according
111 I,6 | personal dignity of the human being and his or her integrity
112 I (32) | the child to have a fully human origin through conception
113 I (32) | the personal nature of the human being. Life is a gift that
114 I (32) | explained concerning artificial human procreation. ~
115 I,6 | dignity and right of every human being from his or her beginning. ~
116 II | II INTERVENTIONS UPON HUMAN PROCREATION ~By "artificial
117 II | directed towards obtaining a human conception in a manner other
118 II | relation to the respect due the human embryo. Development of the
119 II | fertilizations and destructions of human embryos. Even today, the
120 II | deliberate destruction of human beings or their utilization
121 II | voluntary destruction of human embryos occurs too often.
122 II | and death of his fellow human beings and can lead to a
123 II (*) | techniques used to obtain a human conception artificially
124 II (*) | technique used to obtain a human conception through the meeting
125 II (*) | technique used to obtain a human conception through the transfer
126 II (**) | technique used to obtain a human conception using the gametes
127 II (**) | technique used to obtain a human conception through the meeting
128 II (**) | technique used to obtain a human conception through the transfer
129 II,1 | 1. WHY MUST HUMAN PROCREATION TAKE PLACE IN
130 II,1 | PLACE IN MARRIAGE? ~Every human being is always to be accepted
131 II,1 | fruit of marriage. ~For human procreation has specific
132 II,1 | and achieve his own proper human development. The parents
133 II,2 | artificial insemination, human conception is achieved through
134 II,3 | of the procreation of the human person. Surrogate motherhood
135 II,4 | teaching on marriage and human procreation affirms the "
136 II (40) | Congress on Fertility and Human Sterility, 19 May 1956:
137 II,4 | based upon the unity of the human being, a unity involving
138 II (41) | between themselves in a human manner". ~
139 II,4 | love. The origin of the human being thus follows from
140 II,4 | body and in the union of human persons. ~c) Only respect
141 II,4 | respect for the unity of the human being make possible procreation
142 II,4 | those who give him life. The human person must be accepted
143 II,4 | reality, the origin of a human person is the result of
144 II,4 | well as the unity of the human being and the dignity of
145 II,4 | that the procreation of a human person be brought about
146 II,5 | ensure the dignity proper to human procreation. It is acknowledged
147 II,5 | of view for responsible human procreation. But this good
148 II,5 | involves the destruction of human beings, which is something
149 II,5 | taken to avoid the death of human embryos, homologous IVF
150 II,5 | actions which are directed to human fertilization. For this
151 II,5 | origin and destiny of the human person. Such a relationship
152 II,5 | relations, the generation of the human person is objectively deprived
153 II,5 | the only setting worthy of human procreation. For the same
154 II,5 | illicit because it deprives human procreation of the dignity
155 II,5 | to avoid the death of the human embryo. Although the manner
156 II,5 | Although the manner in which human conception is achieved with
157 II,6 | the conjugal act and of human procreation. "In its natural
158 II (51) | Congress on Fertility and Human Sterility, 19 May 1956:
159 II,6 | of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context
160 II,7 | MEDICAL INTERVENTION IN HUMAN PROCREATION? ~The medical
161 II,7 | deduced from the dignity of human persons, of their sexuality
162 II,7 | respect the specifically human values of sexuality.(55)
163 II,7 | service of persons and of human procreation. He does not
164 II,7 | integral dignity of the human person first of all in the
165 II,7 | to the respect due to the human embryo and to the dignity
166 II (57) | Congress on Fertility and Human Sterility, 19 May 1956:
167 II,8 | services to the life of the human person, for example, adoption,
168 II,8 | safeguarding the dignity of human procreation, some have achieved
169 III | to life of every innocent human individual and the rights
170 III | integral vocation of the human person; at the same time
171 III | of discrimination between human beings could come to be
172 III | fundamental rights of the human person. The intervention
173 III | political authority. These human rights depend neither on
174 III | the State: they pertain to human nature and are inherent
175 III | in this regard: ~a) every human being's right to life and
176 III | law deprives a category of human beings of the protection
177 III | approval to the calling of human beings into existence through
178 III | expressly forbid - that human beings, even at the embryonic
179 III | law in matters concerning human rights, human life and the
180 III | concerning human rights, human life and the institution
181 III | just and more respectful of human life and the institution
182 III | natural exigencies of the human person and with the "unwritten
183 III | by the Creator upon the human heart. All men of good will
184 III | of practices contrary to human life and dignity is beginning
185 Conclu | intervention in the processes of human procreation raises very
186 Conclu | to the respect due to the human being from the moment of
187 Conclu | recognition of the dignity of the human person and contempt for
188 Conclu | the origin and fate of a human being. ~In particular, the
189 Conclu | truth about the gift of human life and in the light of
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