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== Roman Catholic View ==
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=== General Theological perspective on Embryos ===
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“The body of a human being, from the very first stages of its existence, can never be reduced merely to a group of cells. The embryonic human body develops progressively according to a well-defined program with its proper finality, as is apparent in the birth of every baby.”  (From Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Issues <ref>http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20081208_dignitas-personae_en.html</ref>)
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! Denomination !! Position on Stem Cell Research
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“With regard to the ethical evaluation, it is necessary to consider the methods of obtaining stem cells as well as the risks connected with their clinical and experimental use.” (Instruction Dignitas Personae, Part 3, Section 32)
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| [Alliance of Baptists]||NO
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“The obtaining of stem cells from a living human embryo, on the other hand, invariably causes the death of the embryo and is consequently gravely illicit: “research, in such cases, irrespective of efficacious therapeutic results, is not truly at the service of humanity. In fact, this research advances through the suppression of human lives that are equal in dignity to the lives of other human individuals and to the lives of the researchers themselves. History itself has condemned such a science in the past and will condemn it in the future, not only because it lacks the light of God but also because it lacks humanity”.” (Instruction Dignitas personae, Part 3, section 32; quote from Benedict XVI, Address to the participants in the Symposium on the topic: “Stem Cells: what is the future for therapy?” organized by the Pontifical Academy for Life (16 September 2006): AAS 98 (2006), 694.)
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| [Alliance of Renewal Churches]||NO
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=== Embryonic Research (from IVF) ===
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| [American Anglican Council]||NO
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“Human embryos obtained in vitro are human beings and subjects with rights: their dignity and right to life must be respected from the first moment of their existence. It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to be exploited as disposable "biological material"…It is a duty to condemn the particular gravity of the voluntary destruction of human embryos obtained 'in vitro' for the sole purpose of research, either by means of artificial insemination of by means of "twin fission"..” (Donum Vitae part 5, section 1.4)
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| [American Association of Lutheran Churches]||NO
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==Notes==
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| [American Baptist Association]||NO
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| [Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church]||NO
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| [Apostolic Lutheran Church of America]||NO
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| [Assemblies of God (USA)]||NO
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| [Association of Confessional Lutherans]||NO
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| [Association of Free Lutheran Congregations]||NO
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| [Baptist Bible Fellowship International]||NO
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| [Baptist General Conference]||NO
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| [CBAmerica]||NO
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| [Central Baptist Association]||NO
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| [Church of the Lutheran Brethren]||NO
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| [Church of the Lutheran Confession]||NO
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| [Church of the Nazarene]||YES
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| [Concordia Lutheran Conference]||NO
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| [Conservative Baptist Association of America]||NO
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| [Conservative Mennonite Conference]||NO
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| [Converge Worldwide]||NO
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| [Cooperative Baptist Fellowship]||NO
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| [Enterprise Association of Regular Baptists]||NO
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| [Episcopal Church]||NO
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| [Evangelical Free Church of America]||NO
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| [Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]||YES
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| [Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship]||NO
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| [Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association]||NO
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| [Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International]||NO
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| [General Association of General Baptists]||NO
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| [General Six-Principle Baptists]||NO
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| [Independent Baptist Fellowship International]||NO
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| [Lutheran Church Missouri Synod]||NO
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| [Mennonite Church USA]||NO
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| [Presbyterian Church in America]||NO
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| [Presbyterian Church USA]||NO
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| [Roman Catholic Church]||YES
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| [Salvation Army]||NO
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| [Seventh-Day Adventist Church]||NO
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| [United Methodist Church]||YES
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| [Wesleyan Church]||NO
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Revision as of 18:25, 5 July 2012

Denomination Position on Stem Cell Research
[Alliance of Baptists] NO
[Alliance of Renewal Churches] NO
[American Anglican Council] NO
[American Association of Lutheran Churches] NO
[American Baptist Association] NO
[Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church] NO
[Apostolic Lutheran Church of America] NO
[Assemblies of God (USA)] NO
[Association of Confessional Lutherans] NO
[Association of Free Lutheran Congregations] NO
[Baptist Bible Fellowship International] NO
[Baptist General Conference] NO
[CBAmerica] NO
[Central Baptist Association] NO
[Church of the Lutheran Brethren] NO
[Church of the Lutheran Confession] NO
[Church of the Nazarene] YES
[Concordia Lutheran Conference] NO
[Conservative Baptist Association of America] NO
[Conservative Mennonite Conference] NO
[Converge Worldwide] NO
[Cooperative Baptist Fellowship] NO
[Enterprise Association of Regular Baptists] NO
[Episcopal Church] NO
[Evangelical Free Church of America] NO
[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America] YES
[Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship] NO
[Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association] NO
[Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International] NO
[General Association of General Baptists] NO
[General Six-Principle Baptists] NO
[Independent Baptist Fellowship International] NO
[Lutheran Church Missouri Synod] NO
[Mennonite Church USA] NO
[Presbyterian Church in America] NO
[Presbyterian Church USA] NO
[Roman Catholic Church] YES
[Salvation Army] NO
[Seventh-Day Adventist Church] NO
[United Methodist Church] YES
[Wesleyan Church] NO
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