The theme linking today's three stories is the "technocratic paradigm", the impulse to use logic and technology to control nature and to see human beings as ghosts trapped inside machines. It's a catchphrase that Pope Francis threw out in his recent document on the environment, a very thought-provoking one.
It fits our first two stories on bioethics. In the first, genetically-engineered pigs could possibly save people with organ failure. It sounds very positive, but it's a possibility whose ramifications need to be studied very carefully. In the second, scientists believe that they can help children with a rare genetic disease by injecting them with cells from aborted foetuses. Philippa Taylor argues that technical effectiveness does not make a procedure right.
And finally, with a nod again to the Vatican, the Archbishop of Los Angeles points out men, women and their chilldren -- families -- must not be treated as raw material to be engineered using technology, medicine, even law and public policy.
Michael Cook
Editor
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 | The fragile case for new brittle bone treatment
Philippa Taylor | FEATURES | 22 October 2015
Human beings should never be means to an end.
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 | This little piggy went to market
Michael Cook | FEATURES | 22 October 2015
Will pigs provide an unlimited source of organs for sick humans?
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 | Curing the wounds of the family
Jose H. Gomez | FAMILY EDGE | 22 October 2015
At the root of the family crisis lies a loss of confidence in God as Father, writes an archbishop from the Synod.
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