U.S. Bishops Release Fact Sheet about Church’s Position on Abortion

by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

To help end confusion caused by recent misrepresentations of Church teaching on abortion by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities has issued a two-page fact sheet explaining that the Church’s position in defense of human life has never changed.

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U.S. Bishops Call Embryonic Stem Cell Research “Gravely Immoral”

by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer

By a vote of 191-1, the U.S. bishops recently adopted a statement on embryonic stem cell research in which they call experimentation on human embryos “the deliberate killing of human beings, a gravely immoral act.” It also condemned attempts to force citizens to pay for such research, saying it would “make taxpayers complicit in such killings . . .”

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