Vatican conference opposes IVF
Dr. Kirsty Horsey, Progress Educational Trust 08 March 2006 [BioNews, London] Pope Benedict XVI has told an international Catholic conference on the scientific and bioethical considerations of 'The Human Embryo Before Implantation', that IVF embryos have a right to life, even before implantation. Speaking to the Pontifical Academy for Life, he declared that all human life was 'sacred and inviolable' and that 'moral judgment is valid from the start of the life of an embryo, even before it is implanted in the maternal womb'. The Vatican hosted the conference to review whether current scientific data supports the Vatican's hard-line position on IVF. The Vatican opposes IVF and related procedures because embryos created in a laboratory are often discarded, whereas others are frozen and still others are created for medical research purposes, for example to create stem cells. http://www.BioNews.org.uk [email protected] © Copyright 2008 Progress Educational Trust Reproduced from BioNews with permission, a web- and email-based source of news, information and comment on assisted reproduction and human genetics, published by Progress Educational Trust. |
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