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“Human embryos obtained in vitro are human beings and subjects with rights: their dignity and right to life must be respected from the first moment of their existence. It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to be exploited as disposable “biological material”. In the usual practice of in vitro fertilisation, not all of the embryos are transferred to the woman’s body; some are destroyed. Just as the Church condemns induced abortion, so She also forbids acts against the life of these human beings.”
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation, 1987
“The various techniques of artificial reproduction, which would seem to be at the service of life… actually open the door to new threats against life. Apart from the fact that they are morally unacceptable, since they separate procreation from the fully human context of the conjugal act, these techniques… expose [the embryo] to the risk of death.”
Pope Saint John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995
“The Church cannot regard [IVF] as morally acceptable… The destruction of ‘superfluous’ embryos, their freezing or use for scientific experiments, is a grave sin against human life, equivalent to abortion, and constitutes a profound violation of divine law.”
Russian Orthodox Church, The Basis of the Social Concept, 2000
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You've written before about Trump's religious background.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Donald Trump grew up in the Marble Collegiate Church of Norman Vincent Peale, who even took Trump's first wedding there. The Power of Positive Thinking was the old mainline American Protestant tradition reconfigured by the New Thought movement, and Paula White's prosperity theology is that reconfiguration of Pentecostalism.
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