Okay to support JDRF

[Tom_B]

A coworker is walking in a JDRF Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation charity event. Is it okay for me as a Catholic to support this organization? I don’t know much about them. Do they promote embryonic stem cell research? Want to help a good cause but not send the wrong message.

 

[AJ85]

A coworker is walking in a JDRF Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation charity event. Is it okay for me as a Catholic to support this organization? I don’t know much about them. Do they promote embryonic stem cell research? Want to help a good cause but not send the wrong message.

From what I understand, they take the unused embryos from invitro clinics for stem cell research. So yes, they are involved in embryonic stem cell research.

 

[Seatuck]

From what I understand, they take the unused embryos from invitro clinics for stem cell research. So yes, they are involved in embryonic stem cell research.

Source, please.

 

[odgers]

Source, please.

In their own words, on their own website. Just typed in “stem cell” and got a lot of stuff…

jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=112176
“JDRF applauds the National Institutes of Health for the guidelines it issued today to enact President Obama’s historic Executive Order expanding embryonic stem cell research. Since human embryonic stem cells were first discovered ten years ago, JDRF has worked to ensure that United States public policy would allow scientists to fully evaluate their potential to lead to new treatments for type 1 diabetes.”

archindy.org/criterion/local/2011/04-29/guest.html
“JDRF is one of the nation’s leading advocates of human embryonic stem-cell research, and in 2008 donated $4.9 million specifically to this kind of research.”

The end simply doesn’t justify the means, especially when talking about the taking of millions of the most innocent of lives amongst us each year.