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Article: Catholic teaching on the human embryo as an object of research.
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- Catholic Insight
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- October 1, 2004
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Many Catholic leaders in the pro-life movement who oppose laws which would permit research on human embryos fail to realize that there is a fundamental need to outlaw in vitro fertilization in all its forms, if such opposition is to be effective. They refer only to cloning research, of to cloning on the in vitro embryo, but do not oppose the actual creation of the in vitro embryo itself. Canadian Bill C-6, for example, which purported to prohibit various specified types of genetic engineering or cloning techniques, will not in fact, do so. Why not? It does not do so because this Bill did not prohibit in vitro human embryo formation. Artificial human procreation, achieved ...