{"id":2837,"date":"2008-05-26T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/vatican-daily-derides-package-of-anti-life-measures-passed-in-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T07:34:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T11:34:18","slug":"vatican-daily-derides-package-of-anti-life-measures-passed-in-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/vatican-daily-derides-package-of-anti-life-measures-passed-in-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican daily derides package of anti-life measures passed in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=12723\" target=\"_blank\">CNA<\/a> | May. 22, 2008<\/p>\n<p>The L\u2019Osservatore Romano published an article this week slamming an anti-life package passed this week by Britain\u2019s House of Commons that includes measures allowing the creation of human-animal embryos, in vitro fertilization, and artificial insemination for lesbians who want to have a child. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>LOR reporter Assuntina Morresi explained in her article that the most controversial measure in the package is the approval of human-animal hybrids.  \u201cThere is no demand for these embryos in the scientific community, despite reports in the media.  So far only tow British groups have requested permission to create the hybrids, using egg cells from cows and adult human cells,\u201d Morressi said.<\/p>\n<p>She called the proposed research \u201coutdated and useless,\u201d noting that last December Ian Wilmut, the creator of the sheep Dolly, publicly announced his refusal to continue harvesting embryonic stem cells from therapeutic cloning, saying \u201cthe technique is inefficient and has never worked in humans and has done nothing but harm to animals.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Morressi also pointed out that human-animal hybrids could not be used to treat humans because of the possibility of contamination from animal biological material.  \u201cNeither could they be used as models to study certain diseases,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>In her piece, Morressi also explained that the creation of \u201csavior babies\u201d through in vitro fertilization would mean producing a large number of human embryos in order to pick the ones with the best genetic characteristics. The \u201cacceptable\u201d embryos would then be allowed to develop so that after birth their tissues could be used to help sick family members. The other embryos would be destroyed. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=12723\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNA | May. 22, 2008 The L\u2019Osservatore Romano published an article this week slamming an anti-life package passed this week by Britain\u2019s House of Commons that includes measures allowing the creation of human-animal embryos, in vitro fertilization, and artificial insemination for lesbians who want to have a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,58,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-abortion","category-roman-catholic","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}