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OTTAWA, June 19, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Christian Heritage Party (CHP), Canada’s only pro-life political party – at the federal level, has produced a release on the “Rules for Stem Cell Research”. While noting the great potential benefits of stem cell research the paper notes that “some potential sources are ethically unacceptable” specifically referring to “aborted babies and ‘surplus’ embryos developed for treatment of infertility.”

The paper condemns the arguments of researchers who pursue these unethical sources of stem cells saying that the relief of suffering justifies the means by which the tissue or cells might be obtained. “Their arguments sound hauntingly like the suppliers of cadavers for medical research a century or more ago, who robbed graves and even murdered prostitutes and street people to ‘meet the medical need,’” says the CHP. The release concludes, “The only acceptable source of stem cells is one that would never, if nature were allowed to take its course, become a mature human being . But any source that is a stage in the development of a fellow human being must be off limits.”

See the Party website and the Stem Cell release:  https://www.chp.ca https://www3.sympatico.ca/askok/24-062001.htm