If I'm to understand this correctly, the catholics are saying that god
has delivered to scientist a method to use stem cells without the use of
embryos. That's nice. Is this the same god that created the diseases
that need a cure in the first place? What sort of warped logic is that
- lets have disease so I can let them find out how to cure it use stem
cells, but that'll be a problem because they'll have to use embryos and
I can't have that, so I'll give them another way.
God, what a wanker.
g.
http://www.catholic.net/global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?news_id=21151
Stem Cell Breakthrough Seen as Providential
By Miriam Diez i Bosch
ROME, NOV. 29, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The president of a group of Catholic
medical associations welcomed the news of a stem cell research method
that doesn't destroy human embryos, saying divine providence is
indicating a path to researches and doctors.
Doctor Josep Simón, president of the International Federation of
Catholic Medical Associations, told ZENIT that the breakthrough
published Nov. 20 is particularly appealing to Western results-based
societies. Two reports published last week showed how scientists
generated pluripotent stem cells from human skin cells. The method
avoids the ethical concerns raised by embryo-destructive research.
"It appears that providence is indicating the path to doctors and other
researchers," Simón told Zenit. "Catholic doctors still have some
difficulties bringing many people to understand and accept that nascent
human life is worthy of all respect. Nevertheless, only the research and
treatments based on adult stem cells are giving results.
"With [adult stem cells], embryos are not destroyed and besides we have
results. And results are valued a lot in our Western developed and
efficient societies."
Simón said he is glad the breakthrough shows that a morally acceptable
technique is also the medically best.
"I don't know how well we would have been able to communicate [our
message] if the embryonic stem cells would have given results," he said.
"Providence has saved us from the difficulty of having to say: 'You can
offer cures with embryos buy you should follow this other path, since
the destruction of embryos is immoral.'"
Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told
Vatican Radio he also welcomed the breakthrough.
"Now that there is no need for embryos nor therapeutic cloning --
professedly therapeutic -- a chapter of sharp polemics is closed," he
said. "The Church had confronted this for ethical reasons, encouraging
researchers to continue with adult stem cells and declaring it illicit
to sacrifice the embryo.
"The ethic that respects man is useful also for research and confirms
that it is not true that the Church is against research: It is against
bad research, which is harmful to man."
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