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Wednesday, October 6, 2010 |
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 A CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE PROBLEM
by Judie Brown
The field of regenerative medicine is burgeoning. Researchers are constantly searching for new ways to cure diseases and illnesses. The use of human embryonic stem cells has long been touted as an important way to do so, but this involves the taking of a human life. As the guest article today explains, there must be ethical alternatives for this so that the field of science does not exploit human life. [ Read full article at ALL.org ]
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Archbishop Chaput: Abortion still important even in troubled economy
http://www.ewtnnews.com/new.php?id=1854
EWTN
Even in a time of economic trouble, abortion is not simply one issue among many because it attacks the "cornerstone" of human dignity and kills the innocent, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said on Tuesday. He recommended a 1998 pastoral letter of the U.S. bishops for guidance on the issue. In an Oct. 5 column for the Denver Catholic Register, the Archbishop of Denver wrote: "When we revoke legal protection for unborn children, we violate the first and most important human right-the right to life itself. And once we do that, and then create a system of alibis to justify it, we begin to put every other human and civil right at risk."
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Vatican Cardinal: Artificial Procreation a "Shameful Form of Commerce"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100511.html
Life Site News
With evident joy, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, on Tuesday celebrated the opening Mass for the Human Life International World Prayer Congress for Life in Rome. The cardinal noted the dire situation of the world with regard to the culture for life: "Today, the hardness of heart that grieves the Lord and the Church, has widely spread around the world: abortion and euthanasia have become socially respectable choices, and are even recognized as human rights, the human embryo is considered testing material, the rampant killing of innocent human lives increases." He noted that the "40 million abortions" which occur worldwide each year are "equal to the victims of World War II" being killed each year. |
Vatican Official Criticizes Nobel Prize for IVF Pioneer
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/oct/10100512.html
Life Site News
A Vatican official and pro-life advocates have condemned the awarding of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards, a pioneer of in vitro fertilization, whose work led to the birth of Louise Brown, the "first" IVF baby in 1978. Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, the recently appointed head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said, speaking in a personal capacity, that the award ignores the ethical questions raised by artificial methods of reproduction. While recognizing the scientific significance of Edwards's work, Carrasco said he would have voted for other scientists. The moral results of IVF make the choice of Edwards a cause of "perplexity," he said. The decision to award the prize to Edwards is "completely out of order."
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