{"id":6889,"date":"2006-06-29T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/messing-with-embryos.html"},"modified":"2006-06-29T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T13:50:59","slug":"messing-with-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/messing-with-embryos.html","title":{"rendered":"Messing with embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grounds for excommunication:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Vatican stepped up its fight against embryonic stem cell research on Wednesday, saying that scientists involved in such work would be excommunicated .<\/p>\n

Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Vatican department dealing with family affairs, said in a magazine interview that "destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion… it’s the same thing" .<\/p>\n

"Excommunication applies to all women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos," the cardinal told Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana .<\/p>\n

Trujillo said that "certain crimes" were being treated as if they had "become rights" .<\/p>\n

He added that the Catholic Church was worried because "even talking about the defence of life and family rights is being treated as a sort of crime against the state in some countries – a form of social disobedience or discrimination against women" .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is he on firm canonical grounds? Ed Peters explores the question.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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