Catholic Church Warns Pro-Lifers About Ice Bucket Challenge Donations

Life News ^ | 8-25-2014 | Steven Ertelt

[Citizen Zed]

Unfortunately, as LifeNews has documented, there is a chance your donation to The ALS Association could be used to support embryonic stem cell research.

ALSA has confirmed it supports research involving the destruction of unborn human life to find cures for the disease.

In an email to Religion News Service, Carrie Munk, a spokeswoman for the ALS Association, said that the organization primarily funds adult stem cell research.

“Currently, The Association is funding one study using embryonic stem cells (ESC), and the stem cell line was established many years ago under ethical guidelines set by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS); this research is funded by one specific donor, who is committed to this area of research,” she said. “The project is in its final phase and will come to an end very soon.”

Now, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is urging pro-life people to be cautious about where they send their donation. The Catholic Church officials are not telling pro-life people not to participate, but to select one of a number of pro-life-friendly alternatives –and LifeNews has outlined several here.

[Citizen Zed]

Just like most of the "miracle cure" charities, they just play God with human life. And just like Obamacare, we are not free to say where our contributions are to be spent.

[HiTech RedNeck]

More like “using the remains of a human life that had been destroyed.”

[MNDude]

Didn’t Palin and Bush do this?

[Citizen Zed]

"Didn’t Palin and Bush do this?"

I know that Bush said existing embryonic stem cell lines could be used without creating new ones. But then Obama said embryos could be created and used for anything but cloning. But then Obama never really defined when the life of a human clone begins. So I believe it was left as just another split-the-baby decision by Zero. Which basically means the Bush decision is null and void.

[GeronL]

I bet a lot of otherwise fine people have been fooled into doing this too.

[pke]

[catnipman]

“there is a chance your donation to The ALS Association could be used to support embryonic stem cell research”

Indeed. And there is a CHANCE the Earth will stop rotating tomorrow too.

Article is nothing but pure unadulterated alarmism. Embryonic stem cell research reached a dead end years ago as it didn’t produce a single therapy or breakthrough. Turns out that adult stem cell research is where the real breakthroughs are occurring.

Note that the article mentions that only a single embryonic stem cell activity had been funded by the ALAA and that that project is soon to terminate, no doubt due to lack of results.

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Salvation]

Embryonic Stem Cells do not work.

People need to support the research that is going on with adult stem cells.

[Sun]

You can check to see if a charity is ethical here:

http://www.all.org/charities/

I was very disappointed that St. Jude’s now experiments on embryos, and I wrote a note to tell them so, and that I regretted I can no longer donate to them.