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Pope in Wednesday General Audience: embryos are "full and complete" humans

Pope: God sees embryos as ‘complete’ humans
Roman Catholic Church stance against abortion, embryo research stressed

Reuters

Updated: 8:47 a.m. ET Dec. 28, 2005

VATICAN CITY - God sees embryos as “full and complete” humans, Pope Benedict said on Wednesday in an address that firmly underlined the Roman Catholic Church’s stance against abortion and scientific research on embryos.

“The loving eyes of God look on the human being, considered full and complete at its beginning,” Benedict said in his weekly address to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Quoting Psalm 139, Benedict said the Bible teaches that God already recognizes the embryo as a complete human. That view is the basis for the Church teaching that aborting or manipulating these embryos amounts to murder.
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