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...veterans, organized according to states and Congressional districts, spent the afternoon lobbying with members of Congress. Ramsey Clark meanwhile spent the 70-degree afternoon in the U. S. District Court of Appeals arguing an injunction obtained last Friday by the government, prohibiting the veterans from camping on the Mall. The Court overruled the injunction at 4:20 p. m. yesterday...
Methodist Paul Ramsey, Professor of Religion at Princeton and one of the top Protestant ethicists in the U.S., protests the aborting of such abnormal fetuses as an unjustified taking of human life. But he does not think moral men can avoid the problems of population and genetic crises. Indeed, he urgently recommends that society develop an "ethics of genetic duty." The right to have children can become an obligation not to have them, Ramsey asserts; it is shocking to him that parents will refuse genetic counseling and take the "grave risk of having defective children rather than remain childless." Dead...
...Ramsey and others, genetic surgery?repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...
...MANY CRITICS cloning is only one of several biological developments that threaten what Paul Ramsey calls "a basic form of humanity": the family. Ramsey thinks that artificial insemination by a donor, which is already fairly common, has opened the door to further invasions of family integrity. In his recent book Fabricated Man, he mentions other possible developments: artificial inovulation (the "prenatal" adoption of someone else's fertilized egg), "women hiring mercenaries to bear their children," and "babies produced in hatcheries." Beyond finding some of the possibilities repellent, Ramsey argues that they violate "covenant-fidelity," a bond of spiritual and physical...
Francoeur, on the other hand, feels that the new embryology can lead to a fresh flexibility in the family structure. He favors host mothers (Ramsey's "mercenaries") because some women want children but cannot carry them to term. In an opposite way, artificial inovulation could be the means for a sterile mother to bear a child, even if not from her own egg. But he draws the line at artificial wombs, which, he says, "would produce nothing but psychological monsters." Others emphasize that the family itself must survive to fill important psychological needs. Molecular Biologist Leon Kass, who left...