CITY 'OF THE VATICAN. Altolia Vatican stem cell research. "Excommunication" for those who practice abortion, but even for those experiments on embryonic cells. Yet in this case the excommunication affects "the woman, doctors, researchers." No communion, then, for Catholic politicians who approve laws contrary to life. A few days before the Pope's trip to Valencia for the fifth World Meeting of Families Catholic, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, announced a tough line of the Holy See, also causing controversy in the Catholic world for the hardness of tone. Without diplomacy, the prelate sets in an interview with "Christian Family" (a weekly published by the publishing house which publishes the text of Benedict XVI) directives on which it will move the Vatican on matters more thorny. In addition, the "minister of the family" of Oltretevere assumed that the Church could be brought "before some international court" for its defense of family and life, "if you listen to more radical demands." admonishing politicians "believers" not to vote for laws that contradict the Church's teaching on life, a close associate of Pope said that it would be "delighted" to meet Rosy Bindi, Union Catholic, holder Italy in the newly formed department of Family . Trujillo part from the explanations that today some "crimes" are "making rights" and that this "is happening with abortion": "Life is no longer sacred, untouchable, but what has become flexible in the hands of man, which can even decide when it begins and when it ends. " Asked if there is still the excommunication for abortion, the cardinal confirmed yes: "It affects the mother, the doctor, nurses, if the father agrees." The same is true for research on embryonic stem cells. "It's the same thing. Destroying an embryo equals abortion. And the excommunication goes for the woman, doctors, researchers who eliminate embryos. " The "politicians who pass the laws," "if they are believers must demonstrate consistency with their acts. Therefore, "if you pass laws unfair and unjust to destroy the man and go against God, be done is a reflection, because they could not approach the Eucharist." The President of the Pontifical Council for the Family reports that in Vatican fears "above all that, faced with current legislation, speaking in defense of life and the rights of families is becoming in some societies a sort of crime against the state, a form of disobedience to the government, discrimination against women" for which the Church could finish ahead of some "international court". No stranger to tones, as was recently discussed in the document of his ministry on "Family and Human Procreation," the cardinal said that he was "specifically asked by the Pope to explain to MPs the protection of life and family." list of countries that were "against all natural law" on family life and the Cardinal put "not only in Spain, including Belgium, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, France." While aware of the fact that "the debate on the embryo has radicalized the conflict a bit 'everywhere," Lopez Trujillo pointed out that "the Church has no intention to initiate a clash of civilizations, nor to hurt anyone. "Let's have a problem with parliaments around the world - underlines -. These laws deal with the collective common good, or is it only further the interests of a few? ". Immediate reactions from the scientific community. "Not even the excommunication can stop the search - reply to Professor Giuseppe Novelli, a geneticist at the University of Rome, in the forefront of stem -. Science can not be blocked by these either-or: biology and medicine are in a different direction than that of the Church. Besides, if we think we've waited 500 years for it to be rehabilitated Galileo ...». Life happens, says Craig Venter, the father of human genome sequencing, that "life is certainly not to listen to the ethical problems." "Instead of launching anathemas should seek shared land, not conflict," says the scientist Ignazio Marino, a surgeon and chairman of the Senate Health Committee. |