Church's view on Stem Cells

copticuser20

I'm doing a paper on Stem Cell research and I was wondering what is our church's view on it.


Thanks!

joeg

Would you mind divulging a bit more information?

Are we talking about embryonic stem cell research? In which those embryos are destroyed in order to extract the totipotent stem cells used in research?

If so, I'm certain the Church is against this.

If life starts at the moment of conception, then just like abortion, such an act is murder.

Are you talking about the extraction of adult multipotent stem cells from the bone marrow or spinal cord, for example?

I'd imagine that would be viewed in the same was as organ donation: perfectly fine, and likely a good deed if it ends up saving someone's life.

TITL

I remember reading a few answers from HGBY about this on suscopts.org.

Here's one:

http://suscopts.org/q&a/index.php?qid=955

childoforthodoxy

http://www.lacopts.org/articles/the-churchs-perspective-stem-cell-research