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“Though it is true that sometimes it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good," it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (18)—in other words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family or of society in general.”
HUMANAE VITAE

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2 posted on 04/08/2009 1:49:39 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NYer

Embryonic Stem Cell research has nothing to do with cures,
and everything to do with keeping abortion from being immoral.


4 posted on 04/08/2009 1:51:33 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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