Why is the Catholic Church so opposed to stem cell research when it could help so many people?

Respectfully,

Mimi Furst

The Catholic Church is opposed to embryonic stem cell research for the same reason she was opposed to Hitler.  People don’t exist for me to use for my own benefit.  If you think the Catholic Church wasn't opposed to Hitler, read Rabbi David Dalen's book, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope.  I dare you to read it.

Where was I?  Oh yes, stem cell research….. 

The Catholic Church is not opposed to stem cell research, just to embryonic stem cell research.

There are lots of stem cells that come from things other than living embryos, or, as some of us call them, unborn babies.  The idea of using another human being for medical experimentation is right out of the Nazi play book, or, for that matter, Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood theories.

If you say that an embryo is not a human person, I would simply ask why not?  Maybe it isn't, or maybe it is . If I see a bicycle in the park and no one is near it, well maybe it’s abandoned, and I can take it, or maybe it belongs to another person and I should leave it alone.  IT’S NOT MINE. 

Are you willing to take that risk?  Are you willing to say one day to Almighty God, the judge before whom you will surely stand, “Well, I didn't think those stem cells belonged to anybody.  Nobody was using them at the time, so I took them.” 

It is a source of great wonder and admiration to me that John Paul II was afflicted with Parkinson’s disease and still, by resisting embryonic stem cell research, fought the research that might have restored his health and saved his life.  When I contrast him to the movie stars who, for their own benefit, regularly lobbied Congress to permit this research that amounted to medicinal cannibalism, it made me very proud to be a Catholic.

It is an important part of growing up, Mimi, to realize that the world doesn't revolve around me, me, me, even if I am a movie star.

Sincerely, 

Rev. Know-It-All