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Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of Embryonic Gene Editing – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of Embryonic Gene Editing

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By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International, June 22, 2026

As president of Human Life International, Fr. Boquet is a leading expert on the international pro-life and family movement, having journeyed to nearly 90 countries on pro-life missions over the last decade. Father Boquet works with pro-life and family leaders in 116 counties that partner with HLI to proclaim and advance the Gospel of Life. Read his full bio here.

 

“Genetic manipulation becomes arbitrary and unjust when it reduces life to an object, when it forgets that it is dealing with a human subject, capable of intelligence and freedom, worthy of respect whatever may be their limitations; or when it treats this person in terms of criteria not founded on the integral reality of the human person, at the risk of infringing upon his dignity.”

― Pope St. John Paul II, Address to the World Medical Association, 1983

Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Columbia University, led by the geneticist Dieter Egli, announced that they had rewritten the genetic code of human embryos at the earliest stage of life, when each tiny human being was still a single cell.

The team used a newer tool called base editing, which rewrites a single letter of the genetic code rather than slicing through both strands of DNA, as the more familiar CRISPR (or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) does. …

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