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Monday February 2, 2004
Georgetown Pro-Life Students Incredulous Over Use of Aborted Baby Cell Lines
Petition Launched
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WASHINGTON, DC, February 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Georgetown University Right to Life, the official pro-life club of the Catholic University, was incredulous that their Catholic school was using cell lines from aborted babies and found it even more unbelievable that the university would continue to use the cell lines after the research was recently publicly exposed.
In related news, Children of God for Life, the pro-life group which initially discovered Georgetown's unethical research and brought it to the attention of Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, has launched an online petition to stop the university's use of aborted fetal cell lines. They request that signers go to: http://www.cogforlife.org/georgetownpetition.htm
Laura Peirson, President of Georgetown University Right to Life, told LifeSiteNews.com today, "I was very surprised when I found out about it." Referring to the initial report that Cardinal McCarrick had seemingly put an end to the controversial research, she said, "it seemed that things had been pretty much resolved after the first story came out." She described her reaction to the university's decision to continue the research saying, "I was very disappointed that Georgetown as a Catholic institution was compromising on this issue."
"I understand the great temptations of health benefit potentials, grants and needing researchers, but the ends do not justify the means," she said. "This creates in people's minds some kind of justification for abortion, seeing it has some sort of positive outcome."
The pro-life student group's board is meeting tonight to discuss its strategy on the matter.
See related LifeSite coverage:
Catholic University Continuing to Use Cell Lines from Aborted Babies - Cardinal Approves
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jan/04013001.html
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