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This is from the official Vatican Press release. Typically tyese statements
are very caesfully worded.

"Another area in which political and moral choices have the gravest
consequences for the future of civilization concerns the most fundamental of
human rights, the right to life itself. Experience is already showing how a
tragic coarsening of consciences accompanies the assault on innocent human
life in the womb, leading to accommodation and acquiescence in the face of
other related evils such as euthanasia, infanticide and, most recently,
proposals for the creation for research purposes of human embryos, destined
to destruction in the process."

note reference to "human life in the womb"

creation for research purposes of human embryos, destined to destruction in
the process

The NIH guidelines specify that only excess embryos created for the invitro
fertilization should be used.  These embryos are not created  for research.


"A free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject
practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from conception
until natural death. In defending the right to life, in law and through a
vibrant culture of life, America can show the world the path to a truly
humane future, in which man remains the master, not the product, of his
technology."



must reject practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from
conception
until natural death.

Conception per Webster "the act of getting pregnant". Pregnant per Webster
"containing unborn young within the body"
NO REFERENCE TO FERTILIZED EMBRYO OUTSIDE THE BODY

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