Vatican hosts conference on embryo ethics

[lovuian]

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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is hosting an international conference on the ethics surrounding embryos and in-vitro fertilization procedures and its position that human life deserves legal protection starting at conception.

Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, who heads the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, said he believed current scientific and philosophical data supports the Vatican's view, set out in a 1995 papal letter to bishops, the encyclical "Evangelium Vitae."

But Sgreccia told reporters Friday that "all the cards are on the table" at next week's conference, which will address issues like pre-implantation genetic screening in which embryos can be checked to see if they carry disease.

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[Botany]

1. So people who don't have sex* and will never be parents get to

give their 2 cents, why? Dark Age knowledge .... way useful.



* :rofl:

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Embryos should be held to the same ethical standards

as the rest of us.

[lovuian]

3. They should be dependants too and pay taxes...

lets go all the way here...

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Like all Vatican papers, the wording is everything

when they finally come up with some conclusions.

[JVS]

5. oh boy

:popcorn:

[Shelor]

6. CORRECTED: Vatican holds conference on its hopes for theocracy