[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Human Embryology and Church Teachings

[PFLI PharmAid Center]

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 23 Sept 2008 AD #2

*http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/em/em_132embryologychurch1.html


      New! Human Embryology and Church Teachings
      <http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/em/em_132embryologychurch1.html>

by Dianne N Irving, PhD

For the last 40 years debates have been raging over abortion, the use of 
abortifacients, //in vitro// fertilization (IVF) and other artificial 
reproductive technologies (ARTs), pre-natal genetic diagnosis, human 
embryo and fetal research, human embryonic "stem cell" research, human 
genetic engineering, human cloning, and other related issues. During 
that time the "scientific facts" used as the "starting points" for 
arguments both "pro" and "con" have been astoundingly and boldly 
deconstructed in order to "scientifically" justify essentially unethical 
actions.

The consequences of this scientific misinformation to the individual 
formation of conscience, as well as to the public good and welfare, has 
already been staggering and yet to be finally weighed. This article is 
an attempt to start the process of correcting this shameful historical 
record by documenting the objective scientific facts of human embryology 
that have been known scientifically and professionally for over a 
hundred years. It will also demonstrate briefly how well a realist-based 
philosophy, as well as the formal teachings of the Church on these 
various related issues, coincide with the objective scientific truth. 
Clear thinking on these critical issues is the objective.



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