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Responsible in the past for ‘unprecedented violence’, eugenics is a major worry of Pope Benedict XVI, who yesterday spoke about how these ‘deplorable’ practices present themselves today ‘differently’ with the selection of embryos and the discrimination of the sick and disabled, resulting in a rejection of life in the name of an abstract ideal of health.
Receiving the participants of the conference called ‘The new frontiers of genetics’, which is taking place in the upcoming days at the Vatican, Ratzinger immediately clarified that ‘all discrimination’ based on differences that are “ascribed to real or assumed genetic factors is an attack against humanity”.
While acknowledging that “eugenic and racial ideologies, which in the past have humiliated human beings and provoked inhumane suffering, are not being proposed”, the Pope denounced the fact that in our times “a new mentality that tends to justify the different consideration of life and personal dignity has become present”. Eugenics, warned Pope Benedict XVI, is being presented again today and is “discriminating against those who are disabled” or even worse “arriving at the selection and rejection of life”.
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