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	Pope gives Obama booklet on bioethics

Efrain Alvarado

7-10-2009 8:30 PM

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bioethics, human, dignity

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7-11-2009 5:56 AM

Antara

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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/pope-gives-obama-booklet-on-bioethics.html"><P>The pope gave Obama, who last March lifted restrictions of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, a copy of a recent Vatican document on bio-ethics in which the Holy See explains it opposition to such practices.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/07/pope-gives-obama-booklet-on-bioethics.html"><P>"Dignitas Personae" (dignity of a person) condemns artificial fertilization and other techniques used by many couples and also says human cloning, "designer babies" and embryonic stem-cell research were immoral.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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