Family Life

“Human cloning is intrinsically illicit in that, by taking the ethical negativity of techniques of artificial fertilization to their extreme, it seeks to give rise to a new human being without a connection to the act of reciprocal self-giving between the spouses and, more radically, without any link to sexuality. This leads to manipulation and abuses gravely injurious to human dignity.” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions n. 28.

Important Church Documents:

Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2008). 

Donum Vitae, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and On the Dignity of Procreation, Replies to Certain Questions of the Day, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1987).  Available here.

Catholic Websites:

• "How to Vote Catholic: Bioethics," CatholiCity: The Catholic Church Simplified

• Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyck, "Stem Cell Research and Cloning"

• Texas Catholic Conference, "Human Cloning"

Ecclesial Documents (Bishop/ Vatican)

• USCCB, Church Documents and Teachings on "Human Cloning"
• USCCB, "Selected Quotes from Church Documents: On Human Cloning"
  

Article

McConchie, Daniel S. Working for Cures, Not Clones: An Overview of Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research. 

Fact Sheets:

• Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning: Questions and Answers June 13, 2008 (En Espanol)

• Research Cloning and "Fetus Farming": The Slippery Slope in Action

• Practical Obstacles to "Therapeutic" Cloning, February 23, 2006

• Human Cloning and Embryo Research: No Road to Biotechnology Growth

• Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003

• What is Human Cloning?

• Current State Laws on Human Cloning

• The Myth of "Therapeutic" Cloning

• Does Human Cloning Produce an Embryo?

• Would a Ban on Human Cloning Block Stem Cell Research?, April 20, 1998

• Human Cloning Debate Raises Pro-Life Issues, February 9, 1999

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