Vatican Dailiy Slams Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Vatican daily slams embryonic stem cell research

VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's newspaper is reiterating Catholic teaching that embryonic stem cell research is immoral as President Barack Obama prepares to lift a federal funding limit on such work.

L'Osservatore Romano wrote Saturday that such research in the eyes of the Catholic church is "deeply immoral" and lamented that U.S. taxpayers' money will help fund embryonic stem cell research.

Catholic teaching holds that life begins at conception and opposes research involving destruction of human embryos.

The Vatican's newspaper quoted from a condemnation issued last year by U.S. bishops who expressed worry that there will be "no stopping point" if humans are treated as mere objects of research.

Embryonic Stem Cell Research