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Not all stem cells are derived from embryos.Embyros are humans! I don’t see how can take cells from them without harming them. You’re violating their personhood! Why can’t the liberal left get that through their thich heads?
Will someone please explain this to me.
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Rosalinda
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Finally, we have an English translation of what the pope said at the recent symposium organized by the Pontifical Academy for LIfe.
Kindly take note, any Catholics who think one can dismiss the Pope because he hasn’t spoken ex cathedra. He is teaching as part of the ordinary Magisterium, not the extraordinary. It is important to observe P.B.XVI uses key words such as, ‘I repeat’; ‘I reassert the teaching of the Church’ and there can be ‘no compromise’. He speaks clearly, forcefully, unequivocally defending prenatal embryonic human life. A :banghead: Catholic would be guilty of culpable ignorance to ignore such warnings.
title: "A Good Result Can Never Justify Intrinsically Unlawful Means"
zenit.org/english/
Kindly take note, any Catholics who think one can dismiss the Pope because he hasn’t spoken ex cathedra. He is teaching as part of the ordinary Magisterium, not the extraordinary. It is important to observe P.B.XVI uses key words such as, ‘I repeat’; ‘I reassert the teaching of the Church’ and there can be ‘no compromise’. He speaks clearly, forcefully, unequivocally defending prenatal embryonic human life. A :banghead: Catholic would be guilty of culpable ignorance to ignore such warnings.
Read full statement at Zenit News** I would like to repeat** here what I already wrote some time ago: Here there is a problem that we cannot get around; no one can dispose of human life. An insurmountable limit to our possibilities of doing and of experimenting must be established. The human being is not a disposable object, b**ut every single individual represents God’s presence in the world **(cf. J. Ratzinger, “God and the World,” Ignatius Press, 2002).
In the face of the actual suppression of the human being there can be no compromises or prevarications. One cannot think that a society can effectively combat crime when society itself legalizes crime in the area of conceived life.
On the occasion of recent Congresses of the Pontifical Academy for Life, I have had the opportunity to reassert the teaching of the Church, addressed to all people of good will, on the human value of the newly conceived child, also when considered prior to implantation in the uterus…
title: "A Good Result Can Never Justify Intrinsically Unlawful Means"
zenit.org/english/
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vern_humphrey
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That is correct. And while much progress has been made with adult stem cells, no cures have been achieved using embryonic stem cells. Supposedly the Chinese, who operate under no such moral restrictions as ourselves, have had disasterous results using enbryonic stem cells.Not all stem cells are derived from embryos.
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But the pro-abortion crowd would have us believe it’s all about embryonic stem cells.
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Rosalinda
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Urban asked:
For more details about altered nuclear transfer ANT/OAR go to the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
eppc.org/publications/pubID.2374/pub_detail.asp
The Pontifical Academy for Life and the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations wanted to:Will someone please explain this to me.
I share your concern. Nevertheless, if there is any way to do this research ethically without harming human embryos, we shouldn’t automatically slam the door. Fr. Pacholczyk at the National Catholic Bioethics Center has endorsed a technique which may prove successful. Kindly note, the endorsement is initially for animal trials only to assure it is technically capable of being successful with humans.explore the possibilities of obtaining “pluripotent” cells, which can be used in many different medical applications, without destroying human embryos.
ncbcenter.org/FrTad_MSOOB_1.aspThe central objection to embryonic stem cell research is that it requires the destruction of embryonic humans who are about 5 days old, in order to procure their stem cells. OAR (oocyte assisted reprogramming) might provide scientists with a way to make embryonic stem cells directly, without creating or destroying human embryos. Because no embryos would be involved, the stem cells you would get out of the OAR procedure really shouldn’t be called *embryonic *at all, but rather pluripotent. They would be pluripotent because they would be very flexible, as flexible as the stem cells you get from embryos.
So how do you use OAR to make pluripotent stem cells? OAR makes use of a woman’s egg to carry out a procedure that, on first glance, looks very similar to cloning…
For more details about altered nuclear transfer ANT/OAR go to the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
eppc.org/publications/pubID.2374/pub_detail.asp
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Rosalinda
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Well it would seem ANT has not worked out in mouse models and both Fr. Pacholczyk at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and Judy Brown at American Life League are opposed to it.
lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/060714a.htmlHuman embryologist C. Ward Kischer, Ph.D., emeritus professor from the University of Arizona, analyzed and objected to this use of ANT. He stated: “These examples of ANT do not resolve the moral issue and do not resolve the scientific issue of the continuum of human life.” He added that this ANT protocol, “Involves the destruction of human life.”
While it is conceivable that further ANT research with a different target gene(s) could provide an ethical source for embryonic stem cells, it is unlikely that such research will be pursued because Hurlbut and other bioethicists are supporting the protocol found in the Meissner and Jaenisch mouse trials.** If the protocol is used with human cells, it would create disabled human embryos who would be killed for their stem cells.**
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