DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Monday, August 20, 2007

California company claims to give parents an option for in vitro extra embryos

"False hope" and "hot air"

After contracting for in vitro fertilization, medical consumers have typically been offered three options for stranded embryonic children who were not implanted into their mothers' wombs. They could donate them to other in vitro fertilization consumers, "volunteer" them as subjects for human experimentation, or kill them.

Now, a California company is generating controversy for a new plan which proposes killing a couple's "extra" human embryos to create "personalized" stem cell cures. And according to ABC News, this plan is drawing criticism from an unlikely source -- embryonic stem cell research backers, who say it is misleading clients.

Read this strange story here: California Catholic Daily

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"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"