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Vatican condemns sexual technology
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican condemned surrogate motherhood, test-tube baby production, most artificial insemination techniques and human cloning yesterday in a long-awaited document on bioethics.
The 40-page document, titled "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its origin and on the Dignity of Procreation," also called on governments around the world to outlaw experimentation on and mutilation or destruction of human embryos.
Urging Roman Catholics to fight to change civil law judged immoral by the Vatican, the document said legislation must prohibit embryo banks, surrogate motherhood and the donation of gametes between people not married to each other.
Under preparation since the early 1980s, the document compiles both old and new church teaching on subjects ranging from abortion to commercial trafficking in human fetuses.
A Vatican source stressed that the document was not spurred by any specific case, such as that of Baby M, the baby who is the subject of a New Jersey court custody fight between a surrogate mother and the couple who
Test-tube baby pioneers say practice not immoral
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The man who sired the first test tube baby in the United States and the British doctor who pioneered the procedure challenged the Roman Catholic Church's assertion yesterday that their actions were immoral and unethical.
"We do not believe what we did was immoral," said Roger Carr, 35, of Westminster, Mass., the father of 5-year-old Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first test-tube baby born in the United States.
"When we look at what we went through and work at Elizabeth, we
find it hard to believe that that could be considered immoral," said Carr, a mechanical engineer for General Electric in Fitchburg, Mass.
signed a contract with the mother to have the child.
In Britain, test-tube baby pioneer Patrick Steptep said he was surprised and disappointed by the Vatican's position.
"I was very surprised to hear they included in vitro fertilization because up until now they had seemed to accept it," Steppe said from his clinic in Cambridge. "I am very disappointed to hear them say that."
The standard artificial insemination techniques for husbands and wives, in which technology substitutes for sexual intercourse, were among those banned.
The Vatican document, issued at Pope John Paul II's request, attacks a "morally illicit" a wide range of high-tech procedures that might allow childless Roman Catholic couples to produce children.
Also outlawed were test tube baby production, the artificial insemination of a woman with sperm of a man
who is not her husband and use of a man's sperm to fertilize the egg of a woman not his wife.
"That which is technically possible is not of itself also morally admissible," said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department once known as the Inquisition, which issued the document.
"The conjugal act . . . is the only cradle worthy of a new human being," the conservative German prelate told reporters.
Surrogate motherhood was deemed morally illicit in all cases.
"It is contrary to the unity of marriage and the life of the human person of the human person."
In vitro fertilization, the test-tube baby technique in which an egg is fertilized outside the womb, then implanted, also was deemed morally illicit in all cases, whether it involved sperm or eggs taken from a husband and wife or donor sperm or eggs.
The report also held that masturbation to obtain sperm for in vitro fertilization or artificial insemination is immoral because it "disassociates the conjugal act" from procreation.
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Bill would OK drug testing for transportation workers
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WASHINGTON - Brushing aside constitutional concerns, a Senate panel passed a bill yesterday that would require random drug testing of transportation workers such as airline crews, railroad engineers and truck and bus drivers.
The bill, approved 19-1 by the Senate Commerce Committee, now goes to the full Senate, where even some lawmakers who supported the measure in committee said they might fight for changes because they questioned its strength against legal challenges.
The measure would require the Transportation Department to write regulations requiring the testing of workers involved in the safety aspects of commercial airline travel, railroad operation and truck and bus
service.
Earlier this year, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said she would order random drug testing for pilots, air traffic controllers and others considered to have sensitive positions in the transportation industry.
Dole also asked Congress to approve legislation that would permit random drug testing of rail workers, authority her department does not have.
The bill, drafted by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., the committee chairman, and Sen. John Danforth, D-Mo., the ranking Republican, would cover transportation employees such as pilots, airline crews, air traffic controllers, bus and truck drivers and railroad engineers and brakemen.
The department could expand the regulations to include other industry workers.
Under the bill, an employee who tested positive would have to leave safety-related duties immediately. In some cases, the employee could return after rehabilitation.
For an employee to be tested positive, however, he or she would have to fail two tests, a preliminary screening and a more accurate and expensive test.
In addition to periodic, random testing, screenings would be required before employment and after accidents.
"It is time for the federal government to strike hard and fast against substance abuse in transportation." Danforth said.
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