Source: Zenit
BALTIMORE, Maryland, OCT. 20, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The debate surrounding embryo-destroying stem-cell research is essentially one of the rightness of killing one person for the benefit of another, says Princeton professor Robert George.
George said this during the closing keynote address at the Catholic Medical Association's 77th Annual Education Conference on the applications of Pope John Paul II's theology of the body to the practice of medicine. George, who is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, said "science, specifically embryology, is on the side of those who are repelled by the idea of embryo-destructive stem-cell research."
He explained that science reveals that the human embryo, from its first manifestation as a one-cell zygote, is a self-governing being, fully directing its own growth and development. He underlined that from conception, the human being passes through stages of development, but cannot be considered another kind of being.
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