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With all due respect to the other views I have to say the words of Voltaire ( french philosopher) : " I am friend of the King but I am more friend of the true ..." : --------- The great mistake the Cardinal does is taking embryos as factual human beings . They are indeed only the junction of a spermatozoids) and one ovule . They are not human beings at all , or all will turn in one . Myriad unpredictable phantastic things does have to happen before in nature in order to be possible to turn a embryo in a human being alive ... The Cardinal and followers argue that as long the embryos have the POSSIBILITY of became a human being then it must be preserved to that end ....then following this line of reasoning we should also preserve ALL the spermatozoids and ovules produced by men and women in the world as long these live cells have also the same POSSIBILITY (mostly nowadays with the progress of external fertilization in test tubes) ....... > By Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua > > Lately, the issue of embryo stem-cell research has received growing attention, in anticipation of new guidelines to be put forth by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Certain cells identified within the human embryo, known as embryonic stem cells, might be able to be directed toward developing into any of the 210 kinds of tissue that make up the human body. > Despite the apparent good that embryonic-stem-cell research seems to promote, I believe it is terribly wrong. > > This practice is wrong because it inescapably requires the killing of embryonic human beings, whose lives are reduced to research material. A range of state, national and international laws and covenants therefore prohibit it. > > At present, a congressional ban prohibits federal funding of research that entails the destruction of human embryos. The ban explicitly prohibits "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death." The President's own National Bioethics Advisory Committee (NBAC) has acknowledged the morally conflicted nature of this research. It necessitates the killing of embryonic human beings, and this conflicts with the consciences of millions of Americans, who hold that the life of a human being begins at conception (fertilization). -- Cheers , +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+