I've been moving house so everything has been too hectic for me to post much lately. My internet access was virtually nil. But anyway...
I agree with what you say Andrew about how we must take all factors into account when messing about with nature. We get so caught up in congratulating ourselves that we CAN do something that we don't take time enough to figure out if we SHOULD do it.
Such actions should always be considered in tandem with the ethical issues surrounding them, and this will hopefully steer us towards deciding whether or not putting such theory into practice will really be for the good of the human race.

Putting all our faith in science is folly. Science is only one of many ways by which we grow to understand this world and science really just is the mythology of the western world. It is imbued with a cultural bias and I shudder when I hear people say 'no fact x is definitely true because science has proved it'. Science once proved the earth was flat. I think it is the best we've got for figuring out most of the physical world, but people forget that it's not all we have, nor is the physical world all that matters, and that science (like any other discipline) IS inherently flawed. Like any other westerner if I became very sick or suffered a dreadful injury I would probably end up putting my faith in western medicine to get me better, so I do appreciate its power.

My problem with this subject is that it might somehow make us 100% OK with abortion or worse even make it a virtue, like the way we view adoption. Take an unwanted life and transfer it to a place where it is wanted.
I condemn no woman who has had an abortion, that decision is never taken lightly and everyone I know who has had one has ended up deeply upset and traumatised from it. But when it comes down to it I am not sure when I consider an unborn child a person and until I do then I can't decide as to whether I feel abortion is wrong. If the unborn baby is a person then as satanists it would be wrong for us to deny its free will to live. But then again by banning it is it wrong to deny the mother her free will to not have the child?

We might know from other genetic experiments the potential physical hazards for children of aborted foetuses, but we can know nothing of the potential mental or psychological problems or a whole range of other issues.
I don't think we know enough about it to inflict it on the people who will be the product of it and I feel instinctively that it is a bad idea to play with the human race like this.