Sentiments that are often ignored in today’s society:

Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had “shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity", he said.

“When human beings in the weakest and most defenseless state of their existence are selected, abandoned, killed or used as pure ‘biological material,’ how can one deny that they are being treated not as ’someone’ but as ’something,’” he said.

True. When we fail to consider embryos as humans, we treat the smallest of our species like meat, to be genetically manipulated, patented, and sold by corporations. Read the story here: Pope says some science shatters human dignity.