Bioethics
Initiative
Welcome
In America Today, the single greatest threat to the dignity of the human person is moral relativism and it’s effect on the most elemental and valuable national treasure -- life itself.
The insidious disregard for human dignity has passed through a stage of selective destruction of unwanted human life by abortion, to a wholesale destruction of human life created for the express purpose of harvesting its parts. The former was justified by a situational ethic. The latter is the result of science at the mercy of the “moral imperative” without regard to morality and ethics.
A culture of life demands an ethical, moral approach to the use of technology affecting life. The moral use of technology requires education and promotion of ideals through legal, legislative and political means -- it can’t occur without our complete and committed attention. We know that the best way for a nation to fall is for good people to do nothing. The only answer at this late stage of cultural decay is an aggressive initiative to educate the American public and to protect human dignity in law.
We have progressed in our society to a mindset of moral relativism, where decisions involving biotechnology, to the degree justifications are offered at all, are made as claims relative to scientific, social, cultural, or personal circumstances. Seldom is there any reflection on objective and universal moral truths.
In such a social climate, the basic dignity of human beings suffers humiliation and degradation. When research on human life has lost its moral compass, the results are grotesque: babies in test tubes, human cloning, fetal farming, egg farming, and even the creation of living embryos that are part animal and part human.
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