The ‘horror’ of the reproductive revolution

I very much appreciated Heather King’s column in the Oct. 31 issue of Angelus about the “reproductive revolution.” I like the way she is not afraid to be emotive about issues that should arouse in us revulsion and horror. The sentence, “I wanted to lie down and pull the covers over my head,” reminded me of the way I felt after reading “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson a few years ago. The specter of real, live CRISPR babies plunged me into depression. 

Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) once stated: “Here we can at once say that at the very heart of sin lies human beings’ denial of their creatureliness.” That’s kind of it in a nutshell, don’t you think?

— Kathryn Watson