Vatican vows to expel stem cell scientists from Church.
Oh, really?
Well you can always decide to go to some other church, after all it's not compulsary to be a catholic, like it used to be in the dark ages.
What bothers me is that the church seems to have a double standard. Stem cell research does not automatically mean the use of embryos, there are other ways. At the same time, though, the church endorses sending large numbers of perfectly healthy people into harms way (yes, I mean our troops) by providing the military with a good number of chaplains, knowing that a good number will not make it back. We know by now that wars are fought for a reason, and that stem cell research takes place for a reason. Why does the church fail to concede that you have to break some eggs if you want an omelette?
Dear Bazooka,
As stated in the article, the Catholic Church opposes EMBRYONIC stem cell research.
Research on adult stem cells is generally considered morally licit.
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Actually the Catholic Church does approve of the use of Adult Stem Research and cord and placenta cell research.
To be perfectly honest adult stem research is in the process of using it in over 70 clinical studies including cancer. Embryonic stem cell clinical studies = 0
http://www.stemcellresearch.org/ http://www.stemcellresearch.org/
Because the embryos are innocent and non-consenting eggs. Unlike criminals or terrorists, they've done nothing to deserve to be scrambled, and unlike soldiers, they cannot give an informed consent to risk themselves (even in a draft, there is conscientious objector status available, so a potential soldier always, at some level, consents.) Embryos are guilty of nothing, cannot consent to anything, and cannot opt out of anything.