From: Brett Paatsch (bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 00:25:13 MDT
Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap@runbox.com> writes:
> I think this is very good news, and I am not too surprised.
> The Church has a long long history as a political
> organization, and would not have survived that long without
> adapting to changing times. They are realistic and pragmatic
> enough to understand that if something is coming anyway
> regardless of their approval, they better adapt to it and
> adopt it as if it had been their idea from the beginning, I
> think sooner or later the Vatican, if they want to survive,
> may endorse stem cell research, sex education, birth
> control, homosexuality, women's rights.
The Vatican does endorse *adult* stem cell research its
the human embryonic stem cell research they don't endorse
because human embryonic stem cells are obtained by harvesting
them from the inner cell mass of a 4-5 day old blastocyst in
what is necessarily a terminating event for the embryo.
Brett
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