The Insistence That An Embryo Is a Child

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is explicitly clear on the viability of all persons, as made in the image of God and with inalienable rights such as recognition of them as  persons from the time of conception and the embryonic stage.  Since the early twelfth century, the word person has been used to mean an unborn or newly born human being. (Catholicexchange.com, What Rights Do Human Embryos Have?).  To deny this is also to oppose  the Church with its collective understanding of reality of life (Donum Vitae) which holds the position that a person is to be respected from the very first instant of existence.  In short, we were all once embryos.  Moreover, while the Church is not absolutely definitive on ensoulment of embryos, moral teaching directs us to regard the embryo as though that is so.

 
Likely, I should cease looking at the news, too soon before dawn even after prayer time.  This morning I tripped on an NPR story published August 15, 2025, no less (Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Blessed Virgin Mother):  “Embryos small but mighty, first live video show.”  Scientists are so excited to report something that has never been seen before:  the recording of a live human being—they reference as an embryo—implanting itself in an artificially created “womb.”  

 
One observer noted that is was “mind-blowing.”  

 
More like soul blasting!  In God’s wonderful plan, each of us, unduplicated by anyone else, was first God’s “thought,” intended to be conceived and developed in his or her mother’s womb, starting as an embryo.  

 
Truth escapes the modernists scientists.  

 
Explaining that how a human embryo implants in the womb has long been a mystery, these experts gushed that they were at last able to observe such by first making a laboratory facsimile of a human womb—composed of a gel or matrix made of collagen—and then placing dozens of human embryos into this concoction.  These persons never had a chance at genuine development.  Each a unique child of God—barbarically described as “left overs from infertility treatments” — were manipulated as a means to an end.  Eagerly they “grew” in a dead zone.

 
Hiding behind the supposed good ulterior motive of helping infertile couples conceive, people had to die, literally.  We can only pray that through our intercessory prayer, their place in eternity is of perfect love and peace, and their manipulators repent.

 
In cold, clinical terms, the experimenter’s explanation alluded to how the embryo penetrates this matrix and “sort of digs a hole in the matrix.  It’s very, very beautiful,” emphasized Samuel Ojosnegros, head of the bioengineering in reproductive health at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Spain.   (I often often associate Spain with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand who would never have funded this new frontier into an unknown land in a fake womb.  Yet, I wondered if these same bio “explorers” scorn Columbus as an exploiter.)   

 
What is authentically beautiful is the natural intercourse between a man and a woman in Holy Matrimony that leads to natural conception for a person God created, followed by the nurturing of that life in the mother’s womb and later in life within an integrated Catholic family.  

 
These eager, untempered scientists have never even stopped to consider that the actual affixing of the embryo to the womb has “long been a mystery” for a reason.  Man was not made to tinker with creation in the fashion we have witnessed over the past century.  The real beauty of life is the mystery of it.

 
A graduate student who helped conduct the experiment, eerily noted that “You can imagine that the embryo sends little fingers or little arms into this matrix and can pull this embryo deeper and deeper in our matrix.”  Overall, the scientists were “surprised by how forceful human embryos are, especially compared to mouse embryos, which appear to lie passively as a womb envelopes them.”

 
Get a clue you scientists who play god.  Perhaps, God is “forcing” the truth that this is a person, a unique individual like no other who ever lived.  And so desirous of life, he or she persists to develop, but has been cruelly deceived by a “glob” that will ultimately destroy him or her.

 
Moreover, while at least a dozen, but likely more, persons died in this experiment, other researchers praised the work, completely oblivious to the sacrifice they imposed, along with the ultimate insult to God, their creator.  How do they think they came into mature being, able to survive outside a womb, but by necessity beginning in the womb.  

 
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, who studies human embryos—I.e. kills persons in the name of science—at the California Institute of Technology, exclaimed “It really takes a major step towards opening one of the black boxes of human development.  She also used the same modifier:  It’s beautiful.”  

 
Here I had to pause at this “echo” because now I am thinking these icicle scientists may be intentionally collaborating on the word “beautiful” from the “good, true and beautiful” but for their sinister designs.  Are they mocking truth and love, although we know the technocrats have embraced relativism and scorn Catholicism as a cult.

 
Regardless, there can be no justification for artificial conception destined for laboratory experimentation.  In fact, even the semen and eggs are themselves, by themselves,  precious God made, complementary life components intended for fusion by holy, matrimonial relations.  God is the Creator; men and women are meant to be the cooperative couple in procreation.

 
To be truly human, mankind must insist on boundaries.  Of course, it already crossed into enemy territory decades ago, but it is not too late to insist science erred and to cease its diabolical experimentation.  Once a viable embryo is present, science may do all possible to preserve its growth in the womb.  However it may never perceive of such as mere scientific fodder for artificial lab settings and manipulation. 

 
Zernicka-Goetz is correct about one thing.  Scientists opened “a black box” with this experiment, but more like Pandora’s Box.  It is up to faithful Catholics to close that dark portal through prayer, fasting and sacrifice but also advocating in the public square for the protection of persons from the instant of conception.