VATICAN, November 28, 2001 (LSN.ca) – After his General Audience today, Pope John Paul II personally condemned human therapeutic cloning in an address to a group of doctors. The Vatican condemned the US announcement on Monday.
“True humanism can never permit methods and experiments that constitute threats against life that are programmed in a scientific and systematic manner,” he said. The Pope urged the doctors to “uncompromisingly defend life and the dignity of the human person and work within respect of moral law.”
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See the Reuters coverage at: https://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=411945