Archbishop Burke: Use of human embryos defies justification by any moral measure

No cause justifies the taking of innocent human life.

In Sunday's Editorial Section of the Post Dispatch.

No motive, no matter how exalted - even the certain hope for a cure of another individual or groups of individuals - can justify the taking of innocent human life. The church's moral condemnation of embryonic human stem-cell research is based principally upon the fact that an embryonic human must be destroyed in order to conduct the research.

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