Vatican denounces embryo research
The new bioethics instruction was approved by Pope Benedict XVI
BBC News
Page last updated at 13:39 GMT, Friday, 12 December 2008
The Vatican has updated its opposition to embryonic stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilisation and human cloning in a sweeping new document.
The Catholic Church also said the morning-after pill and drugs preventing the implantation of the embryo during pregnancy were "gravely immoral".
The rulings came in a Vatican document released to respond to scientific advances made in the past two decades.
Catholic doctrine says life begins at conception and must be respected.
Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person), an Instruction of Certain Bioethical Questions, was issued by the Vatican's doctrinal body, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and approved by Pope Benedict XVI.
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