Posted on 03/09/2009 8:05:36 PM PDT by kellynla
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's newspaper is reiterating Catholic teaching that embryonic stem cell research is immoral as President Barack Obama prepares to lift a federal funding limit on such work.
L'Osservatore Romano wrote Saturday that such research in the eyes of the Catholic church is "deeply immoral" and lamented that U.S. taxpayers' money will help fund embryonic stem cell research.
Catholic teaching holds that life begins at conception and opposes research involving destruction of human embryos.
The Vatican's newspaper quoted from a condemnation issued last year by U.S. bishops who expressed worry that there will be "no stopping point" if humans are treated as mere objects of research.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
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Participants and Attendees at President Barack Obama’s
Signing of Stem Cell Executive Order and Scientific Integrity Presidential Memorandum
Washington, DC
March 9, 2009
Listed below are the individuals who will attend today’s event.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Participants-and-Attendees-at-President-Barack-Obamas-Signing-of-Stem-Cell-Executive-Order-and-Scientific-Integrity-Presidential-Memorandum/
Senator Orin Hatch(R-UT) stands out...
God bless the Pope.
Where’s Pope Urban II when you need him?
“The road to Hell is paved with ‘good’ intentions.”
-Samuel Johnson
With all the progress reported on adult stem research, embryonic stem cell research seems ever more horrifying and cannibalistic.
The world needs more people to speak about the ethical treatment of the unborn.
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