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Why is the Catholic Church against using embryo cells for curing diseases?
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∙ 16y ago
The Catholic Church is against using human embryos for research, specifically stem cell research, for a few reasons:
1. Many embryos are the product of abortions. The Catholic Church does not sanction abortion nor does it believe it justifiable to use aborted babies for research because of the convenience.
2. The Church believes that at the moment of conception every human being is given an immortal soul. Because of this, every human being has an eternal destiny. Children that die in the womb because of violence, accident or natural complications are to be treated with the dignity proper to a human being. The Church does not condone treating embryos as lab samples.
3. There have been significant developments in alternate methods of cell research that makes it unnecessary to use embryo cells for research. Until these ways are exhausted the Church sees it as unnecessary to take the current path.
Bottom line is the Church never condones doing evil to achieve good. The source of many of the embryos combined with their treatment in the lab as raw human matter is considered evil by the Church and It will not give Its support to such undertakings despite the potential benefits.
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