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Catholics are COMPLETELY against stem cell research. Another Answer Catholics are completely against embryonic stem cell research, which is completely immoral because it involves harvesting and destroying human embryos - infants. Catholics support adult stem cell research, and Catholic physicians and geneticists are carrying it on right now. "Adult" this case is a term that means "already born". The source of these cells is often blood from newborn infants' placentas and umbilical cords, these used to be just thrown away as medical waste. This blood and tissue provides "adult" stem cells that can be used for this research. In fact, the most successful results transplanting stem cells have been of the "adult" type; none of the "embryonic" type has yet been successful.

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