CRAINTE | La peur de l’Eglise catholique est de voir se multiplier les interventions génétiques menant vers une «amélioration» de la race humaine au prix de l’augmentation du nombre des avortements.
Le Vatican a mis en garde mardi contre les risques d’une dérive de la génétique vers l’eugénique, une science qui cherche à améliorer l’espèce humaine, en banalisant les progrès scientifiques et en les mettant au service d’intérêts commerciaux.
"Le risque d’une dérive de la génétique n’est pas seulement théorique. Le terme d’«eugénique» semble appartenir au passé (...) mais (...) une bonne publicité soutenue par de grands intérêts économiques fait perdre de vue les vrais dangers", a affirmé Mgr Rino Fisichella, président de l’Académie pontificale pour la vie.
Selon le religieux, qui présentait un congrès prévu les 20 et 21 février au Vatican sur "Les nouvelles frontières de la génétique et les risques de l’eugénique", le risque est "de mettre en oeuvre des pratiques eugéniques au nom d’une «normalité» de la vie" en voulant "améliorer physiquement l’espèce humaine". >>> AFP | Mardi 17 Février 2009
ENERGY PUBLISHER: Vatican Conference on Eugenics and Genetics
An academic congress will be held at the Vatican February 20-21: 'New Frontiers of Genetics and the Dangers of Eugenics." Scientists will look into the biomedical, legal, ethical, philosophical, sociological, and theological aspects of genetic research.
A February 17 press conference was held at the Vatican to present a forthcoming academic congress entitled: "New frontiers of genetics and the dangers of eugenics". The congress, promoted by the Pontifical Academy for Life for the occasion of its twenty-fifth general assembly, is due to take place in the Vatican's New Synod Hall on February 20-21. Participating in conference were Archbishop Rino Fisichella and Msgr. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, respectively president and chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and Bruno Dallapiccola, professor of genetic medicine at Rome's "La Sapienza" University.
"The congress will be attended", Archbishop Fisichella explained, "by scientists from a number of universities, who will examine the question from various points of view: from the strictly biomedical to the legal; from the philosophical and theological to the sociological". "Thanks to the great work undertaken over the last ten years, above all that of Francis Collins on the Human Genome Project, it is possible to map thousands of genes and thus achieve an understanding of various types of disease; this often offers a real possibility of overcoming heredity ailments".
"The aim of this congress is to verify whether, in the field genetic experimentation, there are aspects that tend towards - or effectively implement - eugenic practices", said the archbishop. Such practices "find expression in various scientific, biological, medical, social and political projects, all of them more or less interrelated. These projects require an ethical judgement, especially when it is sought to suggest that eugenic practices are being undertaken in the name of a 'normality' of life to offer to individuals".
"Such a mentality, which is certainly reductive but does exist, tends to consider that some people are less valuable than others, either because of the conditions in which they live, such as poverty or lack of education, or because of their physical state, for example the disabled, the mentally ill, people in a 'vegetative state', or the elderly who suffer serious disease". >>> By Spero News | Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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