Genetic Engineering Methods And The Church
What GE medicinal application is the Catholic Church typically against?
Embryonic STEM Cell Procedures
What is a GMO?
A genetically modified organism
What is the main difference between Somatic and Germline Genetic Engineering? How does this influence the Catholic Perspective?
Somatic Cell therapy only affects ONE individual, typically carried out after birth and into adulthood.
Germline Cell Therapy affects the individual receiving it, as well as any kids that individual may have afterwards. T
GC has high safety risks, require embryo destruction, or necessitate in vitro fertilization (IVF), all of which area against Church teaching.