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Sunday, July 24, 2005

Pastoral Letter on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Bishop Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok, president of the Korean Bishops’ Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Commission for Bio-Ethics:
    The embryo is life. We have all been embryos. We have no right to meddle with human life....

    [Dr. Hwang's] research... is a manipulation of human life, it offends the dignity of the human person by treating the embryo as an object of research and experiment.
-- from ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - “We must offer hope to the world and promote a culture of life”: Bishops issue pastoral letter on bio-ethics and stem cell research