USCCB: Vatican may rule on embryo adoption

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USCCB: Vatican may rule on embryo adoption

The Vatican is currently considering the issue of “embryo adoption,” according to a member of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and may release some sort of ruling shortly.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, made the comment this morning during floor discussion of a proposed statement from the U.S. bishops on embryonic stem cell research.

In presenting the draft statement, Naumann told the bishops that the Pro-Life Committee is also working on a longer document about in-vitro fertilization, directed in the first place to couples “struggling with infertility.”
Archbishop John Myers of Newark, speaking from the floor, said he is aware of some couples who have legally adopted a frozen embryo abandoned in a clinic by its biological parents, and then implanted that embryo in the woman so that it can be born – thereby, Myers said, “saving its life.”
Would that possibility, Myers asked, be considered as part of the document from the Pro-Life Committee?

“My understanding is that the Holy See is reflecting on the issue of embryo adoption,” Naumann responded. “We’re hopeful that we will have guidance from the Holy See before we issue this document. Certainly we would include that in our document on in-vitro fertilization.”

 

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**Bishops Pass Statement
“On Embryonic Stem Cell Research” **
WASHINGTON—U.S. Catholic bishops, convening June 12-14 in Orlando, Florida at their semi-annual spring meeting, by a vote of 191 to 1, passed a statement concerning embryonic stem cell research. This statement will be the first formal statement issued by the bishops devoted exclusively to this issue.

— U.S. Bishops’ Statement “On Embryonic Stem Cell Research”
— more at the spring meeting

This was just posted on the USCCB website.