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Interfaith: Home / Blog article: Pope Defends Rights to Argue Against Bioethics
February 1, 2008Pope Defends Rights to Argue Against Bioethics
by Rachael Grant
On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI defend the rights of the Vatican to speak out on bioethics, at a meeting of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith. This included opposition to artificial procreation methods, and embryonic stem cell research. He also disregarded those who would dismiss the church as ‘an obstacle to science and to humanity’s true progress’.
He then went on to say ‘church teaching certainly cannot and must not weigh in on every novelty of Science, but it has the task to reiterate the great values which are on the line and to propose to faithful and all men of good will ethical-moral principles and direction for new, important questions’.
The freezing of embryos, the selection of embryos for implantation after testing for defects, and research into human cloning were particular highlights made by the Pope during his statement. He considered them evidence that ‘the barrier protecting human dignity has been broken’.
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