Articles on this issue "embryos"
A Scottish cardinal is appealing through YouTube for a stop to the creation of human-animal hybrids. Cardinal Keith O'Brien of St. Andrews and Edinburgh has a five-minute video to warn about …
read moreCardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor says now is the time for Catholics to tell Members of Parliament that human dignity must be defended, before a bill allowing animal-human hybrids is passed. In …
read moreHere is an excerpt of the address Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo gave Nov. 15 to Loyola College in Baltimore titled "The Sanctity of Human Life from Conception to Natural Death." The …
read moreEmbryos created to save the life of a sick or dying sibling only come into existence after many failed attempts, warned a bioethics expert. The 6th National Bioethics Congress was held last …
read moreNew studies done by three independent teams of scientists show promise in producing embryoniclike stem cells without destroying embryos. The studies, published Wednesday, use ordinary skin …
read moreU.S. bishops are urging Congress to reject legislation that would promote the destruction of human embryos. Two bills, S.5 on embryonic stem cell research and H.R. 2560 on human cloning, are …
read moreHere is a translation of the statement published Sunday by the episcopal conference of Poland on the European Parliament's decision to finance research on human embryos and embryonic stem …
read moreTheologians, philosophers, experts in bioethics and scientists will gather at the Vatican to address the topic \"The Human Embryo before Implantation: Scientific Aspects and Bioethical …
read moreItaly\'s National Bioethics Committee has come out in favor of permitting the adoption of frozen embryos. The committee, an advisory body to the national government, made the recommendation to …
read moreItaly\'s National Bioethics Committee has come out in favor of permitting the adoption of frozen embryos. The committee, an advisory body to the national government, made the recommendation to …
read moreThe bioethics debate has heated up with the recent approval by the U.S. House of Representatives of funding for stem cell research on human embryos and the combined announcements of human …
read moreThe bioethics debate has heated up with the recent approval by the U.S. House of Representatives of funding for stem cell research on human embryos and the combined announcements of human …
read moreMoral reflection must take precedence over scientific achievement in the area of stem cell research, insists the bishop of Pittsburgh. In a pastoral letter, "Evangelium Vitae: A 10th …
read moreFour Massachusetts bishops signed a letter opposing human embryonic stem cell research, an issue being debated by the state's Legislature. In the statement published in The Pilot, the …
read moreThe Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the "Bio-safety Law," an ensemble of norms which, among other things, allows research using human embryonic stem cells. The new legislation, approved …
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