Vatican official urges excommunication for destroying human embryos."Destroying an embryo embryo (ĕm`brēō), name for the developing young of an animal or plant. In its widest definition, the embryo is the young from the moment of fertilization until it has become structurally complete and able to survive as a separate organism. is equivalent to abortion. Excommunication excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by social ostracism, as in the case of Baruch Spinoza, excommunicated by the Jews. is valid for the women, the doctors and the researchers who destroy [human] embryos." As the powerful head of the Catholic Church's Pontifical Council for the Family The Pontifical Council for the Family is part of the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church. It was established by Pope John Paul II on May 9, 1981 with the Motu Proprio Familia a Deo Instituta , Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo left no doubt about his stand on this controversial issue. |
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