Not only does the Catholic Church teach that life begins at conception, but so does science.
As soon as conception occurs, you have a person who is a) alive; b) different genetically from either the mother or father; and c) human.
It is contrary to science to pretend otherwise. The fetus isn’t dead and then suddenly comes alive. It is alive from the moment of conception.
Notice, too, that the reason Gingrich takes this position, apparently, is so he can support fetal stem cell research. Sorry, but that doesn’t fly. In the first place, it is using a human life in a Nazi kind of way. And in the second place, it has proven just about useless.
The ONLY reason to support fetal stem cell research is because you have friends in the business who want government pork to support their experiments.
California has spend billions which it doesn’t have to support fetal stem cell research. What has it gained? Absolutely NOTHING.
Notice, too, that the reason Gingrich takes this position, apparently, is so he can support fetal stem cell research.
Newt always has an excuse to take the liberal position.
http://www.equalprotectionforposterity.com/index.html
“I have often said we need to join in prayer to bring protection to the unborn. Prayer and action are needed to uphold the sanctity of human life. I believe it will not be possible to accomplish our work, the work of saving lives, ‘without being a soul of prayer.’ The famous British Member of Parliament, William Wilberforce, prayed with his small group of influential friends, the ‘Clapham Sect,’ for decades to see an end to slavery in the British empire. Wilberforce led that struggle in Parliament, unflaggingly, because he believed in the sanctity of human life. He saw the fulfillment of his impossible dream when Parliament outlawed slavery just before his death.”
“Let his faith and perseverance be our guide. We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others, a value of which Malcolm Muggeridge says:. . . however low it flickers or fiercely burns, it is still a Divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives ever so humane and enlightened.”
“Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.”
— President Ronald Reagan - Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
I think you mean embryonic stem cell research. Some fetal stem cells can be obtained with out anyone dying.
The good news is that destructive stem cell research that depends on the destruction of embryos is dead itself.
http://wp.me/p1FiCk-nJ
Did you even read the article? He states that he is against this practice, and has always been so.