Stem Cell Research and the Faithful

The Stem Cell controversy is the ethical debate centered with research and that involves the usage, creation, and destruction of human embryos. The main focus of this controversy is the embryonic stem cells. Not all times the stem cell research involves the usage, creation, and destruction of human embryos.

Regarding to embryonic stem cell research, Catholic Church affirms that "killing innocent human." The Catholic Church is incompatible with the deliberate destruction of a human embryo, according to which, Pontifical Academy has stated for Life that human blast cysts are inherently valuable and should be involuntarily destroyed as they are from the union of the gametes human subjects with identities with well define. The Catholic Church supports the research involving stem cells from the tissues of adults and the umbilical cord, involving no harm to human beings at any development that stated. Stem Cell research does not present a conflict between Religion and Science, the bishops of the U.S. approved in a statement June 13 calling the use of human embryos in a research gravely immoral and unnecessary. The stem cell research issue doesn’t force us to choose between ethics and science, but much less between religion and science and it present a choice as scientific and medical progress on how our society pursue it.

The document says that only moral stance that affirms human dignity for all of us is rejecting the first step down this path. It seems to be undeniable that once we have cross the fundamental moral value that presents us from treating a fellow human as a mere object of research and there is such no stopping point. Human life has been threatened in such many ways in our society, the human embryos for stem cell research confront us regarding to the issue of respecting life in a stark new way.

It reminds us that using adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood have been shown to offer a “Better Way” just to produce cells that the patients get benefits in suffering corneal damage, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, sickle cell anemia and many other diseases. If the fundamental rights such as the right to live basing on the abilities that can actually appear or disappear, grow or diminish and to be greater or lesser in different kinds of human being and there is no inherent human rights only a privileges for the strong people. There is no such moral objection to research of this kind, involving no harm to human beings at any stage of development and it is conducted with an appropriate informed consent. 

It dismisses the argument that there is no harm killing which is called “Spare”, embryos creates in vitro fertilization attempts because they would die anyway.